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Malware Could Grab Data From Stock iPhones

Posted by timothy on from the swamp-of-bog-standard dept.

Ardisson writes "Swiss iPhone developer Nicolas Seriot presented last night a talk on iPhone Privacy in Geneva. He showed how a malicious application could harvest personal data on a non-jailbroken iPhone (PDF) and without using private APIs. It turns out that the email accounts, the keyboard cache content and the WiFi connection logs are fully accessible. The talk puts up several recommendations. There is also a demo project on github."

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  1. Well ignore them, App store interns will save you by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Troll

    My post has links to security models of all 3 smart phone platforms. Sorry if I have broken your "but everything has these problems" Apple apology. No, they don't. They don't trust to fresh idiot interns to run commands like monkeys from a chart, they put actual OS security frameworks/sandboxes and so far, they all work in HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DEVICES from Bangladesh to Sweden.

    Capiche?