Monday, December 20, 2010

iPhone Is No More Safe

Security experts have demonstrated that Apple Inc's iPhone is vulnerable to hackers. Hackers can control the device using the popular tactic of identity theft and other crimes. Experts at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a forum for high exchange information on threats to computer security, said that users should be warned about the new threat and Apple should take immediate steps to fix the vulnerability."It's scary. I do not want people on my iPhone," Charlie Miller, an analyst at security consultancy Independent Security Evaluators, said in an interview. A method that allows for easy iPhone hackers a knockout victim of a network carrier and Miller was discovered by Collin Mulliner, Ph D student at the Technical University of Berlin.This method does not allow users to make calls, Internet access and text communication, 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 of the flaw in mid-July, but it's certainly not the problem. ". Credibility and reputation harm Apple if they do not respond positively negative buzz is good buzz is much more harmful," said Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research.About 4,000 security professionals attended the conference, including some that really pirates. Software vulnerabilities are so popular that they can be corrected, but the same information is used by hackers to commit crimes.A computer code via SMS phone hackers to break into iPhones. Mobile phones with SMS text messages to send and receive software updates. Users of this mobile phone can not detect malicious code receives.  It is not illegal to disclose how the hacking computer systems, if it is against the law to use to break into them. When asked why they hand over that information to criminals, security experts said they found it necessary to warn the public that the iPhones are just as vulnerable to attacks than PCs.

"Unless we talk, someone will do it in silence. The wicked will be no matter what happens," Mulliner said.the hacks on iPhones on the networks of four carriers in Germany with AT & T Inc. in the United States successfully tested. Miller and Mullins said they believed that the methods work with the iPhone to carriers worldwide.

Both said they had a similar method to that Google Inc. Android phones to use platform feed. Google has corrected the error after notifying the company of the vulnerability