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Apple's iPhone PDF Exploit. Scared? (Exploited already by Jailbreak)
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I agree with not opening strange files from people would be your best bet but the redirect would be an issue for some I guess.
I don't really use my iphone and Safari to surf the web, I may go to main sites, like cnn,fox, abc, macrumors and other forums so for the PDF injection to happen a pretty popular site will have to be hacked and redirected.Very unlikely
I may however load the patch in Cydia as a safe guard.
I don't really use my iphone and Safari to surf the web, I may go to main sites, like cnn,fox, abc, macrumors and other forums so for the PDF injection to happen a pretty popular site will have to be hacked and redirected.Very unlikely
I may however load the patch in Cydia as a safe guard.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7)
@alent1234
@Cynikal.Mindset
@kas23
Thanks for the info.
Now, I'm going to go find a quiet spot to lie down and some cool water.
(my brain now hurts)
@alent1234
@Cynikal.Mindset
@kas23
Thanks for the info.
Now, I'm going to go find a quiet spot to lie down and some cool water.
(my brain now hurts)
This sort of blanket response isn't feasible for some people. I have a family member who is a recruiter, for example, and receives countless resumes in response to employment ads, most of them in PDF format. To expect that she first knows a person before opening a PDF simply isn't practical. I'm sure there are other similar examples where people must be able to trust that they're safe opening PDFs from somewhat unknown sources.
This is a big problem and avoiding PDFs isn't an effective solution for many.
You have to accept their request to direct connect for them to be able to 'do much worse'
That i understand because she's a recruiter. But i'm talking about the mainstream consumer who isn't a recruiter and just opens something to open it.
Well i wouldn't know i haven't used AIM or any other instant messaging app for years. I mainly use twitter and facebook and i don't have any information worth stealing on facebook.
