iPhone insecurity gets press on CNBC
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
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
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also GSM has been cracked:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8429233.stm
So has 3G
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The cure is pink sheet on the desk of "hacker".
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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.