iPhone - More Secure Than Other Cell Phones?
08.01.07 - 05:43pm
Apple has updated iPhone’s security just as Black Hat was about to show the world how you can take over an iPhone.
The flaw was revealed by Black Hat last week who gave Apple until a Black Hat convention begins tomorrow to patch the bug.
At that convention, they the hackers, will showcase how the hack was achieved.
Apple patched it the flaw along with others fixing a separate cross-site scripting flaw in Safari, a memory corruption flaw in WebKit, an address spoofing bug in WebKit, and a cross-site scripting flaw in WebCore.
By the time hackers have tired of hacking the iPhone, it will be the most secure phone out there. After all other cell phones have just as many bugs, probably more, but they have no press and aren’t “cool” so nobody cares about hacking them! (Oh except the guy stealing Paris Hilton’s contacts in the 2005 incident or the guy stealing yours.)
can also monitor any calls you place - so if you do use the web dialer keep your conversation light enough that it’s okay if the world knows. (keep your secrets to yourself).
