iPhone Hacks: What Took Them So Long?
News has been spreading over many of the major techno-news wires over the past couple of days with regards to an iPhone vulnerability that would allow a hacker to take over and perform any number of tasks like auto-dialing phone numbers or turning the phone into a portable bugging device. Click here for more information on the posting to InfoSec News.
Although there are no known active exploits for this vulnerability, just wait. As we already talked about here it was only a matter of time before these vulnerabilities were made public and a short time after that before we had little armies of iBots dotting the Apple landscape.
… How come it took them so long?
We expected this type of story to come out within a week of the initial release of the phone. We certainly have nothing against Apple or their products (I own an iPod myself and use it every day), but I have to admit that there is a part of me that is hopeful that some of the fallacy that you are “invulnerable to malware” if you own a Mac finally starts to wane in light of some of these latest findings.