UPDATE: Some folks are telling is that this is an iPhone 2.2.1 exploit already patched in 3.0. We’ll wait for an update from Black Hat before we exhale, however…
Almost a month ago we linked to an Engadget report on Charlie Miller and his SMS exploit for the iPhone. Well, today is the day he intends [...]
Turns out that if you jailbreak your iPhone you remove most of the Apple’s security protections — 80% to be exact — and are vulnerable to attacks. At least according to Charlie Miller:
“If you care about security, don’t use a jailbroken iPhone,”
Miller, speaking at SyScan in Singapore, believes that by jailbreaking you [...]
In an ideal world, Mac and iPhone hacker Charlie Miller would discover vulnerabilities, inform Apple, and Apple would then patch them before they had any chance of being exploited “in the wild”.
Miller, however, prefers to keep them to himself so he can win MacBooks and detail them at Black Hat conferences. The good of the [...]
Very little code is bullet-proof. Hackers will always find holes. The worst holes will be critical. The worst hacks will be zero-day and found in the wild — catching companies and users both by surprise.
Not sure we have any of that here. Macworld does report that, at the Black Hat Europe Security Conference, former NSA [...]
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