http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/hackers-iphone-apple-technology-security-hackers.html
How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'
Andy Greenberg, 07.28.09, 5:40 PM ET
On 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.
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