iPhone hacked and hijacked at Pwn2Own

Smartphones might have proved to be a tough nut to crack at last year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own, but the same cannot be said for 2010 as two European hackers were able to gain control of a stock iPhone’s SMS database. The hack, which takes 20 seconds to execute by having the iPhone visit an infected website, allows its SMS messages — including those which had been deleted — to be uploaded to a predetermined server. If that’s not enough to make paranoid iPhone users soil their pants, the same exploit is also said to be able to access to a user’s address book, emails, photos and music all without leaving the iPhone sandbox. Naturally these sort of hacking developments are a bit frightening, but the good news is the hackers will hand their findings to Apple and keep mum on specifics while the Cupertino company does a bit of spackling with its iPhone OS.

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