Apple's new iPhone OS 3.0 has some great new features. You might think some, like cut & paste, should have been there a while ago, but whatever. Better late than never. But the new OS, and the new iPhone 3GS is vulnerable: Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption Is ‘Useless’ for Businesses since Apple's implementation is so easily circumvented. Even worse, the iPhone's Vulnerable to SMS Hack:
...this could also be used to "infect" the iPhone with malicious code without any user intervention. This means, the user doesn't need to click on any malicious link to get his phone infected. In a worst case scenario, the infected iPhone would scourge the user's contacts list and send spam messages to everyone in the list, thereby infecting more phones in the process.
To Apple's credit, Apple Releases a Fix for the iPhone SMS Vulnerability today, within 24 hours of the original announcement of the exploit.
Too bad that at Black Hat, a Mac OS X Rootkit Debuts, as the Mac becomes a more tempting target for hackers as it gains more market share.
