How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'
Found on Forbes on Wednesday, 29 July 2009
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.
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.
And unlike the earlier exploits, Apple has inexplicably left them unpatched, Miller says. "I've given them more time to patch this than I've ever given a company to patch a bug," he says.
Combine that with Apple's claim that a jailbroken phone can crash mobile towers from two days ago and you have an interesting view of the future. A jailbreaking worm that storms through iPhones and tears down the mobile network. Well, if that claim from Apple wasn't just a try to make jailbreaking look really bad.