The security researchers developed an undisclosed attack on the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser to get access to a phone and then run a program that sent the phone’s SMS messages to a Web server.
It is the first fully functioning attack on an iPhone since Apple released version 2 of the device in 2008, said Charlie Miller, the hacker who is set to follow the iPhone attack with an exploit he hopes will hack into the contest’s MacBook Pro (his takeaway, should he succeed: the laptop and $10,000). continue reading…
