How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'
If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly.Let’s hope Apple is paying attention and patches this quickly. Thanks.
Using a flaw they’ve found in the iPhone’s handling of text messages, the researchers say they’ll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone’s functions. That includes dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device’s camera and microphone and, most importantly, sending more text messages to further propagate a mass-gadget hijacking.
Apple has known about this for over a month. The researchers have been working with them. They just have a patching cycle that resembles Microsoft circa 2000.
