FW: NEWSBANK :: iPhone falls at Pwn2Own

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From: Juan Castro (SAL-LA)
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:24:54 AM
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March 24th, 2010

iPhone falls at Pwn2Own

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 3:17 pm

According to Zero Day Initiative, an initiative founded by TippingPoint which organizes the security competition Pwn2Own, the iPhone has been successfully exploited within minutes of the competition starting.

The news was released via Twitter a few moments ago:

Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann successfully exploit the iPhone via Safari! Their payload pulled the SMS database.

The hack seems to have taken less than 10 minutes to pull off. The iPhone was a 3GS model and was running iPhone OS 3.1.3.

More to follow …

 

 

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