How to hijack every iPhone in the world via SMS

[rpm]

How to hijack every iPhone in the world via SMS

Two researchers reckon theyâ??ve found a serious flaw in iPhone code.

 

[Boomstomp]

hel

 

[mercurial]

I posted this yesterday :erm: -> http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=184634

 

[Bizkit87]

Forbes goes a “bit” overboard, by saying that “if you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly.”

/goes to send all his "yuppie" iPhone friends a text ""
/waits....

 

[Datura]

That's pretty cool.

 

[Datura]

/goes to send all his "yuppie" iPhone friends a text ""
/waits....

Hahaha, I was thinking the same thing. I will mail the article to them first

 

[Moklet Kcuf]

iPhone vulernable to Hack via SMS

A caution for iPhone users. Read on.

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/679164-hijacking-all-iphones-via-sms.html

http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2009/07/sms-hack-can-hijack-every-iphone-in.html (most current I could find)

EDIT: apologies, didn't see that the issue was already brought up. this msg was moved to this thread

 

[Moklet Kcuf]

Apple Patches iPhone SMS Security Hole With Software Update

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/apple-patch-sms/

Apple released an update available through iTunes - iPhone OS 3.0.1

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

If you buy an iPhone you deserve to be hacked.

 

[guest2013-1]

If you buy an iPhone you deserve to be hacked.

And the same for you running Windows

 

[Moklet Kcuf]

And the same for you running Windows

Well maybe not 'deserve' for Windows, more like you 'will'

From the sounds of it, the iPhone vulnerability was a little blown out of proportion (my bad too), being that no real world iPhone was even hacked.

 

[bwana]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/apple-patch-sms/

Apple released an update available through iTunes - iPhone OS 3.0.1

There goes a sizeable chunk of this month's bandwidth - why couldnt they have released it yesterday

 

[adsl3g]

There goes a sizeable chunk of this month's bandwidth - why couldnt they have released it yesterday

So what happens if they hack it? - does it turn it into a brick? - never bothered to read the articles... If it does not - then there is nothing that can't be sorted with a restore.

 

[Moklet Kcuf]

So what happens if they hack it? - does it turn it into a brick? - never bothered to read the articles... If it does not - then there is nothing that can't be sorted with a restore.

The Hacker said it was basically possible to take total control of the iPhone and access all it's contents. Also that he could propagate SMS's to other iPhones.

Apple says "no one has been able to take control of the iPhone to gain access to personal information using this exploit.”

In any case, apparently very few hackers would have the skill to even figure it out.

Excerpt from a journalist who volunteered his iPhone as a guinea pig:

Although an attacker could exploit the hole to make calls, steal data, send text messages, and do basically anything that I can do with my iPhone, the researchers were kind and merely rendered it temporarily inoperable.

Here's what happened: While I was talking on the phone to Charlie Miller, his partner, Collin Mulliner, sent me a text message from his phone. One minute I'm talking to Miller and the next minute my phone is dead, and this time it's not AT&T's fault. After a few seconds it came back to life, but I was not able to make or receive calls until I rebooted.

 

[Shardie]

There is an update that fixes the SMS hack. Update your iPhone to version 3.0.1