Unsecured Calls, 5.0

New with iOS 5, the “unsecured call” call warning seems like a direct response to presentations like “Practical Cellphone Spying” at DEFCON, which demonstrated the ability of attackers to set up a phony GSM base station and intercept cellphone calls. iPhone users who are communicating over an...

Find My iPhone App, 4.0

Despite all the hype about a coming wave of mobile device viruses and worms, lost and stolen mobile phones are the biggest security threat to consumers and employers, too. To address the “scatterbrain” threat, Apple introduced ‘Find My iPhone’ application for the iPhone 4 in June, 2010. Part of...

Restrictions

The iPhone, like the many smartphones that have debuted in its wake, includes a variety of powerful applications and features. Many of these functions and apps, including the camera, the Safari browser, FaceTime and others, can have privacy and security implications, depending upon how they’re us...

Data Encryption, 3.1/3GS

Apple’s decision to add data encryption with the iPhone 3GS was a nod to enterprise customers who wanted to offer iPhones to their employees, but were wary of the lack of security features compared with competing platforms like RIM’s Blackberry. Still, when they finally got around to it – with th...

Device Encryption for Exchange, 3.1

The iPhone 3GS was the first update to the device with features that were squarely targeted on the enterprise marketplace. However, after the 3GS was released in the last quarter of 2009, users of older iPhone models who upgraded to the accompanying 3.1 update to iOS suddenly found that they...

Sandbox

Early versions of the iPhone software in the pre-iOS era did not include any kind of application sandbox. This gave apps more power on the device than they should have and meant that exploits against the phone often gave attackers root access to the iPhone software. Apple addressed this with the...

Erase Data/Selective Data Wipe

While the iPhone was developed, primarily, as a consumer device, it quickly became apparent to Apple that its appeal wasn’t limited to personal use. Workers everywhere were bringing their shiny new iPhones to work and using them to connect to corporate wifi networks and check their work e-mail. T...

Passcode

As simple as the concept is, the passcode required to access an iPhone was an important security advance when it was introduced with the first version of the device in 2007. Because the iPhone is essentially a handheld PC and can store so much sensitive personal information, Apple shipped the...

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked yesterday in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. The false tweets accused her of cronyism and various failures. The fin...

iPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook [Video]

iPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook Video A bug in the latest version of Skype for iPhone and iPod touch makes its users vulnerable to having their address book stolen just by viewing a specially crafted message, says AppSec Consulting security researcher Phil Purviance. T...

iPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook [Video]

iPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook Video A bug in the latest version of Skype for iPhone and iPod touch makes its users vulnerable to having their address book stolen just by viewing a specially crafted message, says AppSec Consulting security researcher Phil Purviance. T...

Apple Seeking Professional To Fill New 'Keep Employees From Losing Priceless Mobile Prototypes In Local Pubs' Position

In the latest edition of “open positions that should have been filled three years ago,” Apple Computer is looking to hire a Product Security Manager, the New York Times is reporting. The company advertised the new “Manager, Product Security” position on its Web site, saying that the candidate wil...

Google+ Hacker Florian Rohrweck Hired By Google for Security

Google+ Hacker Florian Rohrweck Hired By Google for Security Austrian blogger/developer Florian Rohrweck, who discovered unreleased Google+ features by exploring the source code, was hired by Google. Rohrweck's main claim to fame was a period of snooping on the code behind Google's various web...

Google+ Hacker Florian Rohrweck Hired By Google for Security

Google+ Hacker Florian Rohrweck Hired By Google for Security Austrian blogger/developer Florian Rohrweck, who discovered unreleased Google+ features by exploring the source code, was hired by Google. Rohrweck's main claim to fame was a period of snooping on the code behind Google's various web...

19 years old iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra (comex) joins Apple

19 years old iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra comex joins Apple 19 years old iOS hacker Nicholas Allegra, better known online as comex, has taken up an internship position at Apple, the company whose devices he has helped jailbreak for the past several years. Comex is most well known for building t...

19 years old iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra (comex) joins Apple

19 years old iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra comex joins Apple 19 years old iOS hacker Nicholas Allegra, better known online as comex, has taken up an internship position at Apple, the company whose devices he has helped jailbreak for the past several years. Comex is most well known for building t...

iPhone Safari Remote Crash

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Exploit Title : iPhone Safari Remote Crash Tested on : iPhone 2G Date : 18/08/2011 Author : X-h4ck Website : http://www.pirate.al , http://theflashcrew.blogspot.com Email : email protected Greetz : Wulns - Danzel - IllyrianWarrior- Ace - M4yh3m -...

Android Malware Found Stealing Texts, Intercepting Calls

The steady drumbeat of malware and spyware targeting the Android platform is continuing, this time with the emergence of a new variant of an Android Trojan that masquerades as a Google+ app and has the ability to not only record phone calls, but also to answer incoming calls and respond to remote...

iPhone/iPad Phone Drive 1.1.1 Directory Traversal

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/python ---------------------------------------------------------------- Software : iPhone/iPad Phone Drive 1.1.1 Type of vulnerability : Directory Traversal Tested On : iPhone 4 IOS 4.3.3/Jailbroken...

iPhone/iPad Phone Drive 1.1.1 Directory Traversal

!/usr/bin/python ---------------------------------------------------------------- Software : iPhone/iPad Phone Drive 1.1.1 Type of vulnerability : Directory Traversal Tested On : iPhone 4 IOS 4.3.3/Jailbroken ---------------------------------------------------------------- Program Developer :...