iPhone Vulnerable to Web Hacking

Its about time. Security researchers at Baltimore based ISE have announced that the iPhone could be turned into a mobile spammer if the user visits a specially crafted web page. Details will not be released until the Blackhat Conference on August 2nd in Las Vegas.

"You could have a million iPhones dialing the company's main line and overwhelm it that way," Miller said.

In addition, hijacked iPhones could be used to send spam by cell-phone text message, which computers generally can't. Any personal data on the phones, such as private phone numbers and text messages, would be accessible as well.

The flaw applies not only to the iPhone, which was launched just three weeks ago, but also to Apple computers running Mac OS and the company's Safari Web browser, a version of which comes with the iPhone. It does not affect Safari running on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows systems.

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