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iPhone falls to hackers, all SMSes compromised


Need to read what your loverly wife is sexting to the neighbor? It’s apparently quite easy. Some hackers – Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann – sent an iPhone user to a special site that was able to steal the phone’s entire SMS library in one swoop, winning the Pwn2Own challenge.

The exploit isn’t openly available yet and it took the duo two weeks to complete.

via ZDNet



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