iPhone Hacked in 20 Seconds at Pwn2Own

[JMcEntegart]

Two European researchers have successfully hacked a fully patched iPhone and exfiltrated the device's entire SMS database in 20 seconds.

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[amabhy]

Give people money and prizes and anything can be done.

 

[dman3k]

Apple and security is like Jello and concrete.

Security by obscurity.

 

[jhansonxi]

Windows and security is like a fart and concrete.

 

[restatement3dofted]

[citation][nom]jhansonxi[/nom]Windows and security is like a fart and concrete.[/citation]

Microsoft has absolutely nothing to do with people successfully manipulating an iPhone - it is completely irrelevant. Go troll elsewhere.

 

[Guest]

all OS has security issues...

 

[rtfm]

what no link? 😛

 

[Jerky_san]

[citation][nom]mikewong27[/nom]all OS has security issues...[/citation]

Its just as he says.. every OS is made by man.. thus another man can find a flaw and exploit it. Thats just life.. But just like everything else if you build it well enough the cracks will be much harder to notice..

 

[Guest]

Misleading title at best. "Once they put everything in place, the hack took just 20 seconds." Like saying, once I built the car, it took 5 seconds for the engine to start when I turned the key. Ah, yeah, lol.

 

[Boxa786]

I can understand the apple comment, but why the hatred for windows on an apple article? Dman made no reference in comparing apple vs windows, ROFL, apple fan ftl?

 

[Guest]

We never had these sort of security issues back in the Windows Me days.

 

[ikefu]

It makes you wonder what kind of others things we could get accomplished if we would start offering cash prizes for other technological feats.

 

[eyemaster]

Please fix the first paragraph, I can't really read the structure...

 

[Guest]

jkljlk

there are some hack that need brute force computational power, this one is a simple drive by ordeal.... imagine visiting a website on your iPhone and having the contents copied

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Another example demomnstrating there is not privacy on the Internet.

 

[kingssman]

step one, go to infected unsecured dangerous website
step two, click yes to allow ((((hacking of my device)))
step three, claim ZOMG!! I've Been HACKED!!

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]Now if they could just hack and redo Obama Care and reverse it Life would be good again![/citation]

Please limit yourself to tech-related trolling while on Tom's.

 

[SAL-e]

Wait a minute. Apples lawyers told us that only reason to lock the phone and jail-breaking is illegal was for security reasons.
/sarcasm
So why the iPhone is locked again?!

 

[hoof_hearted]

alpine dottie

 

[eddieroolz]

They get to keep the iPhone, but something tells me that they'll be selling it for some change.

 

[orionantares]

Was this a weakness in the iPhone OS or was this a weakness in it's Safari browser?

 

[tayb]

Apple,

My iPhone is not secure. There is an application that is being exploited.

The application is Safari. Please remove from App Store.

Thanks,

iPhone User

 

[doc70]

15 sec was the drum roll...
5 sec the exploit


and why keep the iPhone? After proving it's weakness, no piont.

 

[welshmousepk]

' It took Weinmann, a 32-year-old from the University of Luxembourg, collaborated and Iozzo, a 22-year-old Italian researcher from Zynamic, to find the vulnerability and write the exploit. '

is it just me, or does that make no sense?

 

[Guest]

That's takes a great deal of talent. God would hate me if I learned to hack an iPhone.