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iPhone SMS vulnerability not present in other OSes
Posted: 27 Aug 2012, 08:25
by Stuart
"Apple has left a significant vulnerability in its handsets which could allow consumers to be fooled and hand over personal details to hackers and criminals," says McDaid.
Apple has not responded to our repeated requests for comment on the SMS issue, but did offer a response that seemed to pass the buck on to SMS technology itself. Apple also noted that if everyone used iMessage, which authenticates messages sent from iOS to iOS, there would be no problem.
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Re: iPhone SMS vulnerability not present in other OSes
Posted: 27 Aug 2012, 08:56
by rustypup
i fail to see how this is a "significant" vulnerability unique to iOS. the sort of tjop who actually responds to this form of spam also ignores url spoofing in mail attachments. the source and reply numbers to are so much meaningless techno-babble in their world. it hurts to think!
band aids and severed limbs...
Re: iPhone SMS vulnerability not present in other OSes
Posted: 27 Aug 2012, 09:01
by Stuart
Agreed. That said, the world is filled with tjops.
Re: iPhone SMS vulnerability not present in other OSes
Posted: 27 Aug 2012, 10:03
by hamin_aus
Most of them using iDevices
Re: iPhone SMS vulnerability not present in other OSes
Posted: 27 Aug 2012, 10:17
by CapNemo
And thus constituting a security hole in said iDevices that needs to be patched
Re: iPhone SMS vulnerability not present in other OSes
Posted: 27 Aug 2012, 10:19
by ryanrich
jamin_za wrote:Most of them using iDevices
