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Over the past few weeks as the news of iPhone worms struck us hard, highlighting the dangers of a jailbroken iPhone / iPod touch; a report now suggests that the non-jailbroken Stock iPhone’s aren’t as safe as they are perceived either. iPhone developer Nicholas Seriot has posted his findings which show a number of possible [...]
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Ashley Towns the first one to exploit the SSH loophole on Jailbroken iPhone has secured a job with iPhone app developers Mogeneration. The iKee maker gave a rude wakeup call to the iPhone community demonstrating how easily jailbroken iPhone’s can be hacked. Though his worm wasn’t a harmful one, but it did case ripples. After [...]
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Recently we heard about an virus / worm that takes advantage of Jailbroken iPhones that are SSH enabled to change the wallpaper. Fortunately for the iPhone community the iKee worm was just an experiment and no serious damage was done. But yes best to safeguard your jailbroken iPhone from this exploit.
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As the Apple iPhone platform gains popularity with its advanced OS and web friendly applications / interface; an old issue with modern computers comes to light: SECURITY. Spyware and Malware have been great issues for the PC industry to tackle (while Mac has been lucky so far?) and we have all reasons to believe that this would [...]
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Yes its possible and its not a feature but a big big security bug in the iPhone OS 3.0. Apparently the Spotlight search doesn’t sync its cache with the current status of your emails. So if you remember the subject line of a deleted email message, it still shows up on the spotlight search. And [...]
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The SMS hack that probably gave sleepless nights to millions of iPhone users is finally patched. Within hours of Charlie Miller disclosing the hack at Black Hat conference, Apple has pushed out the iPhone Firmware upgrade V3.01. A full 280MB download and you are protected.
Of course we expect all jailbreaking and unlocking of your iPhone [...]
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Engadget reports that UK carrier O2 has confirmed that Apple is indeed working to fix the security flaw that has been reported by security researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner. According to the revelation by these security experts in a security conference (Black Hat) many GSM cellphones have a vulnerability such that they can be [...]
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