Apple fix to iPhone security flaw

[Heidi]

Source: BBC

Page last updated at 07:16 GMT, Saturday, 1 August 2009 08:16 UK

Apple has released a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone.

Experts revealed on Thursday that modified SMS messages could result in iPhones being disconnected from the network or hijacked altogether.

Apple said phones incorporating other mobile operating systems, such as Windows Mobile and Google Android, were also potentially vulnerable.

It added that no-one had actually used the flaw to gain access to an iPhone.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8177755.stm

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[onehandle]

1. Another "the sky is falling" stories for Apple, that never amounted to anything. Fixed yesterday.

Windows = Zillions of security flaws and viruses that affect users everyday

OS X = A rare event that only effects one guy, jumping through hoops to make it happen, in a controlled experiment

[HopeHoops]

2. Obama has the same problem.

Everything that every came out of Bush's mouth was stupid.

Obama USES the word "stupid" and FOX has 24x7 coverage of the scandal, live from Aruba.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Word!

:thumbsup:

[jmowreader]

4. This was a fairly bogus flaw anyway

Didn't you have to send something like 500 texts to the phone to activate the hole? You could have scripted it, but unless you sent them to the phone at night, the odds of it all getting sent to the phone are low.

[Endangered Specie]

5. heh, if this were a PC/Microsoft product, there would be 50 posts already

on how crappy/full of holes it is...

[trotsky]

6. Instead you get the Apple fanbois poo-pooing it.

Good for a laugh, I'll give it that. EVERY OS HAS SECURITY HOLES.