iPhone Security Researcher Unleashes Exploit
By Lisa Vaas
October 15, 2007
H.D. Moore's exploit will gain control of a modified iPhone and promises instructions to crack an unmodified phone soon.
H.D. Moore has released instructions on writing a critical exploit that leverages a bug in how Apple's iPhone handles TIFF image files and, to enable the writing of exploits, has put out a new version of his Weasel debugger that can handle the peculiarities of the phone's ARM processors.
At this point, the exploit can only take over phones that have been tinkered with, but Moore is promising to post instructions on how to exploit unmodified iPhones soon.
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Source eweek.com
By Lisa Vaas
October 15, 2007
H.D. Moore's exploit will gain control of a modified iPhone and promises instructions to crack an unmodified phone soon.
H.D. Moore has released instructions on writing a critical exploit that leverages a bug in how Apple's iPhone handles TIFF image files and, to enable the writing of exploits, has put out a new version of his Weasel debugger that can handle the peculiarities of the phone's ARM processors.
At this point, the exploit can only take over phones that have been tinkered with, but Moore is promising to post instructions on how to exploit unmodified iPhones soon.
Continue Reading
Source eweek.com