Mac Security Expert Identifies iPhone SMS Vulnerability

Posted in Digital Trend.com by on July, 3 at 6:05 am


At the SyScan security conference being held in Singapore this week, Macintosh security expert Charlie Miller has outlined an SMS-based vulnerability in the Apple iPhone that could let attackers listen in on calls, access the GPS unit to locate the phone, execute arbitrary programs, and even let the phone participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other Internet sites via the Internet.

Miller didn’t go into significant detail on the exploit, although he planned to discu

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