New security for new iPhone

Computer security experts will present new security hole in Apple (AAPL) iPhone, which could be used for malicious hackers to spread computer viruses targeting smartphones.

According to the website QuickPWN, cybersecurity researcher Charles Miller appeared SMS hack six weeks and reported that to Apple, which has yet to respond to threats. Miller, A cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner explain your iPhone SMS cybersecurity attack today on the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

This concern is that once it is established that the technique can be used with malicious intentions. The virus is in the form of text messaging or SMS, which stands for short messaging. This text will contain only one character square, reports say. If you have been such a text, turn off your iPhone by holding home and power buttons and move the red arrow in full screen or switch iPhone to airplane mode.
"This is serious. The only thing you can do to avoid off the phone," said Miller, according to Reuters. "It can be very quickly take the iPhone in the world with him."

A virus release will probably come from someone whose number must realize that the attacker would need to know your number to access the phone QuickPWN reported. Once a hacker access to your phone can operate from a distance.

Other shortcomings in the security of iPhone has been recently revealed as persons expert Jonathan Zdziarski was able to get beyond the iPhone 3GS passing PIN encryption and backup with relative ease over time Intenational Business Report today.

This is the first iPhone virus that we know DailyFinance. If successful a message that will be a big hit for Apple, which has for years expressed its Superior security as the main forces in the fight against Windows machines. As the top selling mobile phone since its release in two years, the security error or a series of questions about the iPhone may undermine the confidence of Apple has built with its customers. People in the Apple press conference on relations DailyFinance not give him a call for expressions.

Tip to unlock iPhone

The iPhone Dev team had released an updated version of UltraSn0w last week to unlock iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS which they believed would resolve all random issues that were reported by users.

They have just published a post in which they have confirmed that the latest version of UltraSn0w 0.9 has fixed most of the issues reported by iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users.

They have also provided more details on the list of fixes in case you are still seeing some problem and provided tips on how to resolve them wherever applicable.

Here is the list of issues fixed in UltraSn0w 0.9 and tips and clarifications to resolve them if you are still facing an issue:

* Unusual battery depletion is almost always caused by people choosing to “Restore from backup” instead of “Setup as new iPhone” when iTunes asks you. This isn’t caused by either the jailbreak or the unlock, but it’s a common 3.0 snafu. The fix is to just re-run the official 3.0 restore and choose “Setup as new” this time. Your music and apps and all that will still be synced, but you’ll get rid of any conflicting wifi, bluetooth, or carrier settings. Then just re-run redsn0w and install ultrasn0w.
* Remember, ultrasn0w works with hacktivated phones too, but don’t outsmart redsn0w into thinking you don’t need hacktivation! If you don’t plan on using an official sim, don’t activate via iTunes with such a sim. Just keep your unofficial sim at all times and let redsn0w and ultrasn0w handle hacktivation :)
* T-Mobile in the USA doesn’t use the 3G frequencies that the iPhones support, so turn off 3G in Settings->General->Network. (Some T-Mobile territories gracefully hand down to Edge mode, but most do not).
* Certain unofficial plans have limitations on whether you can make calls and use data at the same time. That’s not unlock-related.
* Some people have installed previous versions of ultrasn0w using non-standard techniques. While the ultrasn0w 0.9 update should have removed all previous versions of ultrasn0w, these users may have outsmarted our removal. So make sure you don’t still see /usr/bin/ultrasn0w present if you’re at ultrasn0w 0.9 (which doesn’t have such a binary anymore).
* If you don’t need or plan to update to ultrasn0w 0.9 from a previous version, you can avoid having that red badge over Cydia by removing repo666 as a Cydia source. Don’t worry, you can always add it back later :)

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iPhone 3GS Encryption is useless!!

3-quarter 2009 conference call, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said during: "We grow with the release of iPhone 3.0, and they showed interest in the 3GS part due to the new iPhone hardware encryption, and better security." But according to the iPhone hacking expert Jonathan Zdziarski 3GS hardware encryption capabilities of the new iPhone, "the lack of protection of sensitive information. Jonathan "NerveGas" Zdziarski double - as the iPhone (for the previous firmware) to run and the boat for the iPhone that you limit the possibility to use the iPhone the EDGE network is a laptop and hack hacking announced Earn Internet surfing. He also uses the iPhone open source tool chain, the unofficial native iPhone applications, the development of iPhone Open Application Development book was published. Encryption with the new iPhone, according to him a couple 3GS freeware program that can be cracked in two minutes. That he was talking about: "It's all yours, right next to the secret message, and keep a secret decoder ring is the same kind." I do not think that we [developers] are not encrypted before it is too low, why is it a major threat to security and difficult to explain is carried out. " He is also a generation that the iPhone and iPhone 3G (iPhone generation 2) and not with the hardware encryption capabilities of the iPhone easily and makes no claim to access to sensitive information. If the iPhone Gets a thief, he is using the freeware program that is very him to force the user the information easy to believe you can draw. Encryption is very easy to Zdziarski Wired.com, where he did not interfere with the iPhone is to access data 3GS the technology was demonstrated. He also removed the remote smartcard SLM useful to criminals, the iPhone is not the only aim of the steal of the user access to sensitive data via the remote control to the command Wipe Wipe said. So my advice to application developers, but the iPhone applications, iPhone, iPhone 3GS than rely on the hardware encryption capabilities is to add extra security. "If the security of their business, then rely on your application will be very unstable. Apple as the technical [3GS iPhone can correct], a piece of the encryption, but it is not useful for security." Apple claims that hackers are now released for comment. Apple is looking at how you talk about them will be interesting, however, these serious allegations. As always we have in the comments below, please let us know your thoughts.