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iPhone Jailbreak Modified Into CC Sniffing Malware

Posted by timothy on from the sniff-sniff-that's-very-sad dept.

chicksdaddy writes "In a presentation at the ToorCon Hacking Conference in San Diego on Saturday, Eric Monti, a Senior Researcher at Trustwave's Spider Labs, demonstrated how to turn the popular JailbreakMe Tool for iPhones and iPads into stealthy rootkit-style malware that can monitor voice and video activity or intercept sensitive data, such as credit card magnetic stripe data from an iPhone-based transaction."

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  1. Re:How much was he paid by Kilrah_il · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, if you shoot someone then the gun is still not malware - it's a murder weapon. You need to get out of the basement more often.

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    Whenever in an argument, remember this.
  2. Re:It's not about hatred. by indiechild · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Excellent post. This subject has frustrated me as well.

  3. Re:It's not about hatred. by node+3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How does Apple hurt developers? By creating the world's most successful mobile app store? "Help! Apple's making it too easy for us to make money!" is the cry heard from developers far and wide?

    They have done some things that don't help some developers. For example, the requirement of using Objective-C, C++, or C doesn't help Java programmers, but it doesn't hurt them. Refusing to carry buggy apps, or apps that run afoul of a limited number of guidelines, in their store doesn't help developers of such apps, but those developers knew going into it that the guidelines existed.

    So, really, what has Apple done that can so generally be said to "hurt developers"? In fact, Apple does a lot to help them.