Apple\'s iPhones HACKED!! You can not call 911 / 999 / anything

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All data in iPhone can be stolen, your nude pics and videos inclusive!

You can be knocked off the GSM operators\' network any time, you can not make / receive any call when hacker wants to cut you off. You can not get help in emergency!

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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090730/wr_nm/us_iphone_security

iPhone vulnerable to hacker attacks: researchers

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -

Security experts have uncovered flaws in Apple Inc\'s iPhone that they said hackers can exploit to take control of the popular device, using the tactic for identity theft and other crimes.

Users need to be warned that their iPhones are not entirely secure and Apple should try to repair the vulnerability as soon as possible, they said at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, one of the world\'s top forums for exchanging information on computer security threats.

\"It\'s scary. I don\'t want people taking over my iPhone,\" Charlie Miller, a security analyst with consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators, said in an interview.

Miller and Collin Mulliner, a Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Berlin, also discovered a method that allow hackers to easily knock a victim\'s iPhone off a carrier\'s network.

It prevents users from making calls, accessing the Internet and exchanging text messages, they added.

They said the information they presented at Black Hat will give criminals enough information to develop software to break into iPhones within about two weeks.

They said they warned Apple of the flaw in the middle of July, but that the company has yet to fix it.

\"Apple\'s credibility and reputation could get hurt if they don\'t respond. Positive buzz is good; negative buzz is much more harmful,\" said Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research.

About 4,000 security professionals were in attendance, including some who are really hackers. While experts ferret out software flaws to fix them and protect users, hackers use the same information to devise pranks or commit crimes.

The researchers showed the audience how to break into iPhones by sending computer code via the phone\'s SMS system. Mobile phones use SMS to send and receive text messages along with software upgrades. They said that the phone\'s users cannot detect that it is receiving the malicious code.

It is not illegal to disclose ways to hack into computer systems, though it is against the law to use it to break into them.

When asked why they would hand over such information to criminals, security experts said they felt it was necessary to alert the public that iPhones were just as vulnerable to attack as personal computers.

\"If we don\'t talk about it, somebody is going to do it silently. The bad guys are going to do it no matter what,\" Mulliner said.

They have successfully tested the hacks on iPhones running on networks of four carriers in Germany along with AT&T Inc in the United States. They said they believed the methods will work with iPhone carriers around the world.

The two said they used a similar method to break into phones running on Google Inc\'s Android operating system. Google patched the flaw after they notified the company of the vulnerability.

Apple officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

(Reporting by Jim Finkle; Additional reporting by Gabriel Madway; Editing by Richard Chang and Tim Dobbyn)

 

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8177755.stm

Apple to fix iPhone security flaw
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Google said that it had already patched the weakness

Apple is set to release a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone, the UK network operator 02 has said.

Experts revealed on Thursday that modified SMS messages could result in iPhones being disconnected from the network or hijacked altogether.

Phones incorporating the Windows Mobile and Google Android operating systems are also vulnerable, they said.

An O2 spokesperson said the patch would be available Saturday through iTunes.

"We will be communicating to customers both through the website and proactively," the spokesperson added.

"We always recommend our customers update their iPhone with the latest software and this is no different."

Access all areas

Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner told the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that the hack works by slightly modifying the data - sent by the network and which the user does not see - that arrives as part of a text message.

The system that processes such messages is similar across different operating systems and can, once compromised, gain access across a range of applications including a phone's address book or camera.

The team say that hackers could develop programs to exploit the weakness in as little as two weeks, but told the conference that publicising the means of attack was necessary to ensure the problem was addressed.

"If we don't talk about it, somebody is going to do it silently. The bad guys are going to do it no matter what," Mr Mulliner, an independent security expert, said.

The team wrote software to exploit the weakness, targeting iPhones on four networks in Germany as well as AT&T in the US. However, they believe it would work equally well in any country.

The approach is particularly dangerous because messages are delivered automatically, and users cannot tell that they have received the malicious code.

The problem could be fixed by directly patching the vulnerability in smartphones' operating systems, or the network providers could scan for messages that look to be trying to gain access to phones via the malicious code.

The researchers said they had informed Google of the hack and that the company had already taken steps to address the problem.

The Black Hat gathering, part of a leading series of conferences for information and computer security experts, took place from 25 to 30 July.

Apple were not available to comment on the flaw.