Apple iPhone: Security Vulnerability
Apple has released an update for the iPhone, so the users can fix some vulnerabilities of this gadget. It happened one day before that the expert who discovered those issues, Charlie Miller, would reveal those issues at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Miller, former agent of the National Security Agency (NSA) in United States, manage an small IT company looking for security vulnerabilities in the software in order to prevent to the companies that make the programs.
One week ago, he published in his corporate blog he was able to hack the security of the new Apple’s featured product. He didn’t give details about how to achieve it, but he showed videos where people could see an iPhone sending messages or making calls while nobody played it. Miller send the security failures to the phone manufacturers and he conceded them a time until August 1 so they could fix the holes, because on that date he revealed how to use the failures in order to take the control of the gadget, in a session during the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Apple thanked to Miller for his collaboration, and on August 2, they released a security patch (15 Mb) for the users where they fix more than 50 security holes detected in the browser Safari, the Mac Os X (operating system) and even in the iPhone. Experts of other software companies also have informed about other vulnerabilities, according to eWeek, a digital magazine.
More information: http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/08/04/iphone-apple-mac-tech-cx_ag_0804miller.html
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