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iPhone Virus?
That’s right, just when everyone thought that the iPhone could not get viruses, Charlie Miller, Independent Security Evaluators researcher, and Collin Mulliner, a Ph.D. student, attending the University of Berlin, announced a hack for the iPhone that just could turn iPhone owners smiles, upside down.
According to Miller and Mulliner’s presentation given on Thursday, Hackers are able to break in to the iPhone by SMS (text messaging/Short message service) and “take over” the iPhone enabling the camera and other aspects of the iphone to turn on without the end user knowing it happening. There are rumors that this virus can spread from iPhone to iPhone via the phone numbers in the owners contact list.
According to www.theregister.co.uk, Miller told Apple about this weeks ago and has not yet received an official response.
UPDATE: Macrumors.com reports, “Apple today released iPhone OS 3.0.1, addressing an SMS security vulnerability disclosed at yesterday’s Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The release of iPhone OS 3.0.1 has been expected since a spokesperson for UK iPhone carrier O2 claimed earlier today that a fix for the issue would be coming from Apple on Saturday.”
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