After its launch boosted by feats of advertisement and cleverly induced impatience and enthusiasm on the part of gadget lovers in general and Apple supporters in particular, the iphone got on the news again a little while ago... Experts of a computer security consultancy (Independent Security Evaluators) said they had managed to take full control over an iphone, which Apple would readily describe as a mobile phone ahead of its time.
It is by observing how the iphone connects to the Internet that our experts have discovered the flaw. They claim that the wireless connection device used by the iphone to access the Internet makes it possible to hack, thus enabling a third party to completely control the phone and take a peek at any private information stored inside.
To the experts of Independent Security Evaluators, it meant that the handset was vulnerable to attacks. In two weeks they were able to discover a flaw, and what flaw: the targeted iphone disclosed all sort of personal data, from SMS to call history, not to mention contacts... In fact, according to ISE, any file they wanted, they could get.
To cap it all, there was suspicion that a hacker could make phone calls at the expense of the iphone owner and perhaps even use it to spy on them...
The safety of mobile phones has become a hot topic as they get more powerful and come to behave more and more like home computers. And in this context, the launch of the iPhone - which adds a music player, an Internet browser and the touchscreen to the old regular mobile phone - puts the computer security industry in an stronger position than ever.
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