A chink in the iPhone’s armor? Say it ain’t so! During a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore, security researcher Charlie Miller made clear that there was a significant vulnerability in the iPhone’s SMS system, a flaw that could “allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.”Of course, it’s likely that this won’t be exploited en masse, but the sheer fact that so many iPhones are out there makes this a fairly serious risk. According to Miller,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A chink in the iPhone’s armor? Say it ain’t so! During a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore, security researcher Charlie Miller made clear that there was a significant vulnerability in the iPhone’s SMS system, a flaw that could “allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.”Of course, it’s likely that this won’t be exploited en masse, but the sheer fact that so many iPhones are out there makes this a fairly serious risk. According to Miller, Continue reading