Experts at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas, a forum for exchanging information about the top IT security threats, said that users should be warned about the threat of new and Apple should take immediate steps to repair the vulnerability.
"It's scary. I did not want people on my iPhone," Charlie Miller, an analyst at security consultancy Independent Security Evaluators, said in an interview.
A method for the iPhone hackers an easy knockout victim of an airline network was discovered by Collin Mulliner and Miller, Ph. D. student at the Technical University of Berlin.
This method does not allow users to make calls, access the Internet and exchange text messages, they added. They also said that hackers could break into the iPhone software in about two weeks with the information they presented at Black Hat development.
They said they had warned Apple about the flaw in mid-July, but the business is not to solve the problem. "The credibility and reputation could hurt Apple if they did not respond. Positive buzz is good buzz negative is much more harmful," said Trip Choudhary, an analyst with Global Equities Research.
About 4000 security professionals attended the conference, including some that are real pirates. The software errors are found, so they can be corrected, but the same information is used by hackers to crimes.
A computer code using the phone SMS system allows hackers to penetrate the iPhone. Mobile phones with SMS text messages to send and receive software updates. Users of the phone cannot receive detect malicious code.
It is not illegal to reveal how computer hacking as against the law to use to break into them. When asked why they deliver such information to criminals, security experts said they believed it was necessary to inform the public that the iPhones are also vulnerable to attacks than PCs alert person.
"Unless we talk, someone will do it in silence. The bad guys will not do anything," Mulliner said.
The hacks on iPhones on the networks of four operators in Germany with AT & T Inc. in the United States successfully tested. Miller and Mulliner said they believed that the methods that work with the iPhone carriers around the world.
