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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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In less than a month we have seen two iPhone worms (discovered) and here comes the third and most dangerous one. While the first one iKee was just a security warning (friendly hack) the other one (iPhone/Privacy.A) we saw was able to steal data from your iPhone. If these were not enough to make you [...]
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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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Security expert Charlie Miller has unearthed a big loophole in the Apple iPhone that allows a hacker to gain complete access to your cellphone by just sending a couple of sms text messages. So if you see a text message on your iPhone with only a small square character, you better switch off the phone [...]
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Another Apple patent, this one reveals plans of a biometric security measure to protect and lockdown iPhones and Macbook to avoid unauthorized usage. But fingerprint security and face recognition is nothing new? However Apple plants to make this feature integrated such that the user wont be distracted from their normal usage routine [...]
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The iPhone update 2.1 announced by Steve Jobs is out. And here are the notable fixes:
1) Addition of Genius feature: The genius feature compares your library with thousands of other iTunes / Apple users (online) and automatically makes playlists… WOW
2) Faster installation of 3rd Party Apps
3) Improved signal strength display for 3G signal
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We already know that Apple takes the iPhone Applications security v seriously. And none other than Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself has confirmed the much talked about”Application kill Switch” in the iPhone.
So what is this Kill Switch? Well sometime back an iPhone hacker revealed that the iPhone remotely calls Apple’s servers to allow them to [...]
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