http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/041609-researcher-finds-possible-bug-in.html?hpg1=bn By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service 04/16/2009 Famed Mac hacker Charlie Miller has found another possible security vulnerability in Apple's iPhone. Miller, a principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, is known for his prowess in hacking Apple products, winning the CanSecWest security conference hacking contest two years straight. Miller detailed his latest find -- just discovered a couple of days ago -- on Thursday at the Black Hat Europe security conference. The finding refutes what was a commonly held belief about how an unmodified iPhone works. Most security researchers thought it wasn't possible to run shellcode on an iPhone. Shellcode is code that can run from a command line, but the iPhone was thought not to allow it for security reasons. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Fri Apr 17 2009 - 02:18:37 PDT
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