Erictric.com, 29 Jul 2009
Apple doesn’t have too long to react to a potential public embarrassment at the upcoming Black Hat securty conference on Thursday, July 30 with a patch to correct an SMS vulnerability. Apparently, the bug would allow hackers to take over an iPhone but sending an SMS message.
Charlie Miller, the man who discovered the bug initially mentioned this problem at the SyScan conference in Singapore earlier this month, though at that time his finding only produced an iPhone crash. Miller has since been working on the vulnerability, and claims to have finally been able to take over Apple’s flagship mobile device with a few SMS messages.
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