Saturday, November 22, 2008

Vulnerability: Iphone with potential Abzock trap

How now employees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt have found out, all models Iphone a dangerous security gap.

About this may attacker with just a few lines of program code to control the gain HandyGames multimedia. You receive emails or SMS with a link and clicking on this opens an ordinary website. But shortly thereafter elect an expensive mobile phone 0900-Nummer.Ein cancel the connection is not possible, because the screen during this period remains gray.

"Any attacker with basic HTML knowledge, this vulnerability to abuse and thus cause widespread damage," said Collin Mulliner.

Some time ago already appeared once on a similar problem, but Apple has been detected. Users of the Iphone is recommended that the latest firmware 2.2 download. This, according to Apple security gap.

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