Jul 31, 2009
iPhone Vulnerable To Hackers
Written under: Pop Culture, TechnologyTech researchers say that Apple Inc’s iPhone has a flaw in its system that makes it vulnerable to hacker attacks – which consequently lead to identity theft and other crimes.
During the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, one of the world’s top forums for exchanging information on computer security threats, security analyst Charlie Miller says, “It’s scary. I don’t want people taking over my iPhone.”
Meanwhile, Miller and Collin Mulliner of Technical University of Berlin, discovered a method that allows hackers to prevent the owner from making calls, accessing the Internet and exchanging text messages.
During the conference, researchers showed the how one can break into an iPhone by sending computer code via the phone’s SMS system. They said that the phone’s users cannot detect that it is receiving the malicious code.
Apple officials still has no comment regarding this news information.
Source: Yahoo Tech News
