I just followed a tweet over to Mashable and read another article about the latest Apple security flaw. This time affecting the iPhone.

Cybersecurity researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, have identified a vulnerability in the iPhone OS that will allow an attacker to take control of the Phone via a SMS message.  They have, supposedly, notified Apple more than a month ago about this vulnerability, but  the company still hasn’t released a patch.

The two plan to publicize the security flaw today at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.  If you are a victim of this attack, currently the only fix is to turn off your phone.

Hopefully Apple will get a move on and update the OS before this become a wide spread problem. Can’t blame this one on AT&T, that’s for sure. If you are an iPhone user, you might consider pulling out that Blackberry again!

You can read more about this security flaw from these websites:

http://mashable.com/2009/07/30/iphone-virus/
http://mashable.com/2009/07/30/iphoneocalypse/
http://mashable.com/2009/07/29/iphone-sms/
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/hackers-iphone-apple-technology-security-hackers.html

***7/31/2009 – UPDATE:   Apple has issued an update to fix the SMS Vulnerability… iPhone OS update 3.0.1 has been released to iTunes.  You’d better synch that phone now!!!  Update is about  280 -ish megs so you’d better get started.

© 2009, Robert Owen. All rights reserved.

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I was on Twitter yesterday morning and saw a tweet come through with a link to the image below… It originates from the JoyofTech over at Geekculture.com. It appears they have an issue with the name for the latest iPhone release. (Who can blame them…) Either that or the artist was looking at a Lingerie magazine during the WWDC.

Anyway, here ya go:

Be sure and visit their site and tip the cartoonists if you liked this!

© 2009, Robert Owen. All rights reserved.

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