iPhone Virus (SMS Hack) Takes Complete Control of Your iPhone

The iPhone success has been clouded by the successfulness of hackers who break inside your precious with relevant ease with a simple SMS hack. Call it an iPhone virus or whatever you want, Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller at the Black Hat Security Conference yesterday, tried to explain that by sending a special SMS to your iPhone they can easily hack and take complete control leaving you in a helpless situation after spending all that money.

The security hole can breach your iPhone which can then be used to send messages, make calls, steal data and do anything else that is desired. The attack is enabled by a serious memory corruption bug in the way the iPhone handles SMS messages. The hackers or rather the demonstrators of this hacking attack informed Apple about this shortcoming, six weeks back — yet we’re not sure of an update to tackle the iPhone virus.

It is surprising that brains over Apple still haven’t developed a patch for it despite the early call of these researchers. The story does not end here, surely not for Apple as a patch needs to be readied and for the others — it is now being speculated that Android-based phones are found to be similarly susceptible to an SMS attack.

[via CNet]

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