Security analyst says he could hack into your iPhone 鈥� via SMS text
Security researcher Charlie Miller says the iPhone could be hacked remotely, by SMS text. Apple says it is preparing a fix. But are the sharks already circling?
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It was bad enough that your iPhone might suddenly catch a wicked sunburn.
Now a prominent security analyst is raising concerns that the touch-screen phone could be hacked via text message. Speaking at the SyScan conference in Singapore today, Charlie Miller said a coding loophole made it possible for attackers to remotely install and run unsigned software on the iPhone. Apple says it is aware of the problem, , and aims to have a fix in place soon.
Miller, the co-author of said a hacker might conceivably be able to take control of a user's GPS, turn on the iPhone's microphone, or shut off service altogether.
And then there's the doomsday scenario: an attacker pieces together an army of zombie phones, linked in a malicious bot net.
, Dino Dai Zovi, who wrote "The Mac Hacker's Handbook" with Miller, said, "My reaction was that this has the potential to be a very serious vulnerability and likely the worst that has affected the iPhone to date. I was very surprised that he had a vulnerability that was triggerable with just an SMS message."
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