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.)

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Now For Sale Nike+iPod Serial + USB Adapter = Tracker Device

02.28.07 - 01:25pm

You know that whole Nike+iPod security flaw which recently had bloggers everywhere sending out warnings of how easy it would be for a stalker to track a runners movements through the device, perhaps making it much easier to do them harm, even if you change your route daily? Well they no longer have to create the device they can instead simply buy it from Spark Fun - their new USB Adapter.

The USB adapter will not only track the ID Nike+iPod you’re looking for, it will show you all the runners out running within range of your little tracking device. The website specifies, however that this is not what it is designed for, except of course to “allow easy creation of proximity based projects and running/workout research.” Since, naturally you need to know others workouts to make your own better - of course - rather than ask Candice how she stays so thin I will secretly monitor her workouts. Spark Fun also says they want it to be used for cat ID’s saying “We really want to attach these to our cats and make an ID controlled cat-door-lock system. ‘Are you Carlos? No? You can’t come in.”

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