iPhone insecurity gets press on CNBC

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in iPhone edited January 2014
Just watched a security ethical hacker expose iPhones insecurity on CNBC.



According to what he says, Apple IS NOT reviewing the code of apps, thus apps like a game can take information from users Address Book, call history and what not and sending it over the internet.



Hopefully something will come out about this further on their web site.





Here's some further reading about iPhone insecurities:



http://seriot.ch/resources/talks_pap...onePrivacy.pdf





Fake digital certificates on iPhone:



http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/...-certificates/



http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/ip...s+Most+Popular



(if you get a notice saying something needs to be updated on the iPhone, even from Apple, you might want to think twice and verify first through another means)





also GSM has been cracked:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8429233.stm

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    irelandireland Posts: 17,798member
    Ah 'shr.
  • Reply 2 of 8
    hill60hill60 Posts: 6,992member
    So has 3G



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MacTripper View Post


    also GSM has been cracked:



    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8429233.stm



  • Reply 3 of 8
    mr. memr. me Posts: 3,221member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by hill60 View Post


    So has 3G



    Up next on AppleInsider News, the sky is blue.



    I mean really. A cell phone is a radio. OK? Over the last few years, we have seen numerous reports on television and elsewhere of phones' being cloned by passers-by. Data being stolen from phones is a continuing concern. The upshot is that cell phone users should be careful with the data available on our little devices.



    The take away message is "Be careful." However, aluminum foil on my head is not a good look for me.
  • Reply 4 of 8
    bbwibbwi Posts: 812member
    This is simply not an issue. The iPhone is working exactly as designed. The iPhone SDK is specifically designed to let apps access your Address Book, photos, location, etc... All kinds of "personal" information are accessible to apps. They might be able to lock down certain aspects of your Address Book in future software updates but c'mon, this is just a "hacker" trying to get headlines
  • Reply 5 of 8
    ivan.rnn01ivan.rnn01 Posts: 1,822member
    Oh, putain!

    Noobs allegedly prepped their "press" while having been mumbling about code review on AI.

    The cure is pink sheet on the desk of "hacker".
  • Reply 6 of 8
    pmzpmz Posts: 3,433member
    Good thing it runs OSX.
  • Reply 7 of 8
    Ok, it's on CNBC, a video called



    "There's a Virus for That"
  • Reply 8 of 8
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr. Me View Post


    ....



    I mean really. A cell phone is a radio. OK?..





    That's why Wifi is dangerous as well, WEP and WPA both have been cracked, so far only WPA2 with AES hasn't (with a very long password of course).



    Still I'm sure with long enough monitoring of a single signal, even that could be cracked, until the password is changed.
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