Apple iPhone SMS hack vulnerability exposed at security conference – A new SMS vulnerability in the most famous Apple iPhone has been exposed at an international security and hacking conference, Black Hat 2009.
The first person who has shown to the whole world these vulnerabilities related to iPhone and Google’s Android OS, Dr. Charlie Miller has displayed the public of Las Vegas about a new vulnerability that proffers a simple SMS text message to hack the iPod/mobile phone hybrid.
Ranked as one of the most popular mechanics magazine “Top 10 hackers” in 2008, Charlie Miller is an analyst at ISE (Independent Security Evaluators) who recently delivered two speeches at Black Hat conference, concerning “Post Exploitation Bliss: Loading Meterpreter on a Factory iPhone” and “Fuzzing the Phone in your Phone.” His speeches covered all aspects, how to hack into the popular smartphone. He also added, “Specifically by injecting an arbitrary non-signed library in the victim’s process address space, an attacker is able to run his own code thus granting a much higher attack efficacy. This is especially important because on factory iPhones, there are no useful utilities, not even a shell. With this technique, an attacker can bring along their own tools, including the ability to get directory listing, upload and download files, even pivot attacks.”
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