Apple iPhone ‘Bug’ To Hit On Thursday - 07-30-09 - Beware!

A group of researches are going to demonstrate this Thursday, 07-30-09, a hack that can take over any iPhone. The researchers have stated they have contacted Apple over a month ago, but that Apple has yet to fix the problem. So on Thursday afternoon, if you receive a text message with a square, users should turn off the phone to prevent from being hacked.

Over at Forbes they are taking this seriously and have posted the following information:

That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they’ve found in the iPhone’s handling of text messages, the researchers say they’ll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone’s functions. That includes dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device’s camera and microphone and, most importantly, sending more text messages to further propagate a mass-gadget hijacking.

“This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone,” Miller told Forbes. “Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this.”

So if you own a iPhone you should be aware of this possible intrusion on your cell and take the apprioprate action of turning off the device.

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