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furrbearOn Thursday, two researchers plan to reveal an unpatched iPhone bug that could virally infect phones via SMS..
If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly.
That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they've found in the iPhone's handling of text messages, the researchers say they'll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone's functions. That includes dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device's camera and microphone and, most importantly, sending more text messages to further propagate a mass-gadget hijacking.
"This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone," Miller told Forbes. "Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this."
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Date: 2009-07-30 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 12:55 am (UTC)I am resisting the urge to send everyone I know an SMS on Thursday afternoon "containing only a single square character".
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Date: 2009-07-30 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 01:25 am (UTC)Tease.
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Date: 2009-07-30 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 02:22 am (UTC)Get to feeling great.
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Date: 2009-07-30 02:23 am (UTC)If I were feeling completely well, I'd be proposing something stronger than a tweak.
Threatening Me with a Good Time????
Date: 2009-07-30 02:39 am (UTC)5 lb ball parachute? 100 cnt bag of clothes pins from VoldeMart?
Hand-puppetry?
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Date: 2009-07-30 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 02:23 am (UTC)Although there are enough RAZRs to make it interesting.
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 03:13 am (UTC)I'd heard about this over a month ago on the *ahem* undergroundish grapevine. It's right bad.
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Date: 2009-07-30 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 05:42 am (UTC)Does this mean you may be posting again sometime soon?