SMS Hack Can Hijack iPhone Easy July 31, 2009

Security researcher, Charlie Miller discovered the SMS Hack of iPhone a month ago. Miller and fellow researcher Collin Mulliner will make the discovery public at today’s Black Hat cyber security conference in Las Vegas, where hosts and attendees exchange information on Internet threats and security.

The hackers could use this technique to take control of Apple Inc. computers and iPhone’s in order to steal data, disproving the long believed theory that Apple products are more secure than PCs.

The hack involves sending a series of SMS messages to hijack the iPhone. At that point, the hacker could make calls, steal data, send text messages, and basically control all functions of the phone. The hacker could even use it to hijack more iPhones.

Charlie Miller told Forbes:

“This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone. Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this.”

That is a bit of an exaggeration. First a hacker would have to know the appropriate phone numbers to use to hack an iPhone.

The researchers also found a similar “remote control” texting bug in Windows Mobile, and other bugs in Android and the iPhone that can let hackers boot the phones off the network.

Miller and Mulliner also found a hole in the iPhone’s Safari browser way back in 2007 when it was first launched.

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