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Another iPhone Passcode Bypass Vulnerability Discovered | threatpost
It’s getting hard to keep track of all the bugs piling up for Apple’s iPhone. Now it seems a glitch in the iOS kernel of Apple’s much maligned iOS 6.1 is responsible for yet another passcode bypass vulnerability, the second to surface this month. Attackers can apparently access users’ photos, contacts and more by following [...]
Will iPhone 5 have a fingerprint scanner? And will anybody use it? | NakedSecurity
The internet is abuzz with whispers that Apple’s iPhone 5, rumored to be launched this week, will come with a fingerprint scanner to secure the device. If true, this could be a big step forward in Apple’s quest to make the iPhone a digital wallet. Here’s what we know: Apple will release the iPhone 5 [...]
Researcher finds serious SMS spoofing flaw on iOS | ZDNet
A security research who goes by the handle “pod2g” has found a serious security vulnerability in the way iOS devices handle SMS messages, warning that this could be exploited by online criminals. The flaw, which the researcher describes as “severe,” exists since the beginning of the implementation of SMS in the iPhone, and is still [...]
Near-field mobiles are a hacker’s joy | TechEye
Researcher shows how to nick a mobile wallet. While the rest of the world is touting “near field communications” as a way of ending the need for a wallet, it appears that hackers might be rubbing their hands with joy. At the Black Hat security conference, Apple and Android hacker Charlie Miller showed a method [...]
Apple boots privacy name-and-shame app Clueful from store | The Register
iPhone fans denied right to know what’s fondling their data. Apple has pulled from its App Store a utility that revealed how the software installed on iPhones is fondling punters’ data. The Clueful app was created by security company Bitdefender and approved to go on sale in May. However, the privacy tool was yanked this [...]
Researchers criticise the iPhone’s PIN storing practice
Apple’s iPhone smartphones permanently store the PIN number from an installed SIM card in a keychain. According to Jens Heider from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technologoy (SIT), this Apple policy not only goes against the relevant standards, it also puts users’ security at risk because the PIN can be quite easily retrieved even [...]
Researchers Find Bug in SMS App That Can Lead to iPhone Exploits | threatpost
Researchers have identified a bug in an application that can enable attackers potentially to gain control of a victim’s iPhone. The app in question, TreasonSMS, enables users to send SMS messages from a desktop Web browser by using their iPhones as Web servers. The bug lies in the way that the TreasonSMS app handles certain [...]
Google’s iPhone Tracking – WSJ
Google and other advertising companies have been found to be deliberately evading the privacy controls of Apple’s Safari browser. The evasion was revealed in a report in the Wall Street Journal and was based on work by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer. He found that the “+1″ button code added to DoubleClick advertisements also allowed a [...]
Boffins spy on iPhone screens from 200ft away – The Register
Shoulder surfing goes high-tech. Vid North Carolina boffins have been watching text entered into iPhones from 60 meters (197ft) behind the shoulders of users – or from the front, by reading the reflections in the users’ glasses. The process uses a standard video camera. It is even possible using an iPhone’s camera, though the range [...]
Siri’s Security Hole: The Passcode Is the Problem – PCWorld
Siri, the virtual assistant built into the Apple’s iPhone 4S, has a security problem: By default, anyone can use Siri to send e-mails or text messages from a locked phone, without having to enter a passcode first. Macworld contributor Scott McNulty discovered the exploit last week. In addition to sending texts or e-mails, Siri can [...]
New Research Shows Possibility of Using an iPhone as a Keylogger – threatpost
Researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a new technique that enables them to use the accelerometer in an iPhone or other smartphone to capture keystrokes from a nearby PC and decipher the typed words with about 80 percent accuracy. The tactic, while quite complicated, could be used to conduct password-recovery or other attacks [...]
Apple loses another ‘unreleased iPhone’ in a bar – smh
Apple has reportedly lost an unreleased iPhone prototype – potentially the iPhone 5 – in a bar for the second time in as many years. Is a second incident too much of a coincidence to be anything other than an Apple stunt? Australian PR and marketing professionals say stunts like that are not in Apple’s [...]
South Koreans sue Apple over iPhone privacy – news.com.au
NEARLY 27,000 South Koreans are suing Apple for $US26 million ($24.9 million) for what they claim are privacy violations from the collection of iPhone user location information. Each person in the suit is seeking one million won ($892) in damages, said Kim Hyeong-seok, one of their lawyers. He said they are targeting Apple Inc and [...]
Apple’s faith-based security fails again – threatpost
A German government watchdog has just worked out that the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch have ‘critical weaknesses’ that could be exploited by criminals. Apple saves money by not having to provide virus checking software or worrying too much about security. It has marketed this clever plan through its legions of fanboys who claim that [...]
Only jailbroken iPhones, iPads can be safe from latest vuln
iUsers with unmeddled tech must wait for Apple patch. The latest jailbreak for iPhones, published on Wednesday, exploits a zero-day bug in iOS that only users of jailbroken devices will be able to fix, security experts warn. Version 3 of jailbreakme.com, which also works on iPad fondleslabs, takes advantage of a PDF-related vulnerability in iOS. [...]
