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The Apple iPhone combines three products - a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communication device with email, web browsing, searching and maps - into one small and lightweight handheld.

Offering an entirely new user interface the iPhone integrates a large multi-touch display and new software, letting users control iPhone with just their fingers. The iPhone allows users to make calls by pointing at a name or number.

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iPhone vulnerability announced

Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have announced at least two exploits that take advantage of the way the Apple iPhone opens a specially crafted Web page in Safari. Exact details of the vulnerability exploited will have to wait until a presentation at the end of next week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. However, some general information has been offered here..

In a preliminary draft of the Black Hat presentation, ISE researchers Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Joshua Mason note that there are "serious problems with the design and implementation of security on the iPhone," and they single out the fact that most processes run with administrative privileges. Also the custom operating system within the iPhone does not use address randomization or non-executable heaps, making it easy for someone to create an exploit once a vulnerability is found. The researchers said they found such a vulnerability within the Safari browser through fuzzing. Although the researchers wrote two exploits on their own, public exploits for these specific vulnerabilities do not exist. Apple was notified on July 17, 2007, and has yet to respond.

'One of the exploits requires the Safari browser to surf to a maliciously coded Web site. Once there, personal data, SMS text files, contact information, call history, passwords, e-mail, browser history, and voice mail information could be obtained by a remote attacker.

A second exploit developed by the researchers caused the iPhone to make a system sound and vibrate for a second after visiting a maliciously coded Web site. The same exploit could also dial a phone number, send a text message, or turn on the microphone to eavesdrop remotely on conversations within the room.

The Bluetooth process and vulnerability
When it's set to "discoverable" mode, your Bluetooth cell phone or PDA sends a signal indicating that it's available to "pair" with another Bluetooth gadget and transmit data back and forth.

However, an attacker who detects this signal could also attempt to pair with your device and hack in to steal your personal identification number (PIN). You could remain unaware, while the attacker, with your PIN in hand, could be:

Stealing information stored on your device, including contact lists, e-mail, and text messages.
Sending unsolicited text messages or images to other Bluetooth-enabled gadgets.
Accessing your mobile phone commands, which allows the attacker to use your phone to make phone calls, sent text messages, read and write phonebook contacts, eavesdrop on conversations, and connect to the Internet.
Installing a virus on your device that could wreak the same kind of havoc that a virus could on your computer—for example, slowing or disabling your service, or destroying or stealing information.

Criminals have also been known to drive around with Bluetooth detectors, looking for cell phones and PDAs to infiltrate; and to outfit laptop computers with powerful antennas in order to pick up Bluetooth signals from as far as a half-mile away. The latest forms of high-tech attack even include forcing Bluetooth devices to pair with the attacker's device when they are not in the discoverable mode. (It's also very labor-intensive, so targets tend to be individuals known to have a very large bank account or hold expensive secrets.)

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