Here’s an update to the recent iPhone SMS Flaw

If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly.

That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they’ve found in the iPhone’s handling of text messages, the researchers say they’ll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone’s functions. That includes dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device’s camera and microphone and, most importantly, sending more text messages to further propagate a mass-gadget hijacking.

“This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone,” Miller told Forbes. “Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this.”

via Forbes

Google, the world biggest search engine empire, has had its Applications turned down. GV Mobile, an App that enables you to make calls using your Google Voice number, was rejected from the App Store.

In recent weeks, Apple turned down two applications that Google had submitted for review in hopes that they would be added to the company’s App Store. Google said in a blog post last week that Apple had rejected an application called Google Latitude that would have allowed users to broadcast their location and see where their friends were.

Sean Kovacs, a 25-year-old programmer in Tampa, Fla., created GV Mobile, one of the Google Voice applications that was removed from the App Store. He said he was creating versions for the Palm Pre and other iPhone competitors instead. “My days of developing for the iPhone are probably done,” he said.

Mr. Kovacs has made his iPhone application available through Cydia.

via NY Times

Using the app, similar to how 3rd party solutions worked previously, you can log into MobileMe, see the contents of your iDisk, view any supported file formats (the typical jpg, png, Microsoft Office, iWork, and audio/video files), swipe to delete, and otherwise move through the file system.

When you tap on a file, you can also choose to share it or trash it. Sharing opens up an Email Link window where you can forward on access information via email. Shared files show up with a green Shared label and icon in list view there after. (Expired shared items show up with orange labels and grayed-out icons.)

Personally, i Don’t Have a MobileMe account, so i cannot compare, if you have an iDisk MobileMe, let us now how it is!

Rumors have swirled about Apple readying a new version of the iPod Touch with a camera and microphone, which, combined with a Skype account, would pretty much obviate the need for a home phone line once and for all.

Apple’s factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones. An Apple spokesman declined to comment when reached by phone.

If iPod Touches with cameras and microphones go on sale “in two to three months,” as our source expects them to (and which corresponds with our expected timeframe), they will transform the entertainment-oriented iPod Touch line into a voice communications tool wherever WiFi is available.

In addition to these voice-over-IP capabilities, which should have telephone providers quaking in their boots, the microphone (and camera) would enable the iPod Touch to understand voice commands, capture video and images, and work with a wider variety of programs in the App Store.

Most of you Apple fanboys and girls may think that this is totally stupid and dumb. Think about it. Running any other OS, even if it is old and is being emulator, is cool.

Not only will you be able to run Windows 95, but also Windows 3.1. The whole thing uses the Bochs cross platform IA-32 emulator. It was ported over to the iPhone by the guys over at GooDiPhone.com. It doesn’t use a lot of system resources, but it’s just slow. It doesn’t use a whole lot of RAM, which leads me to think that it is just the way the emulator is built.

Although both operating systems are extremely slow, it’s neat to say that you can run them on a iPhone. Wanna try it out? Let’s get started!

You’ll need a few things before hand:
+ A jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch.
+ MobileTerminal installed on the device.
+ A copy of “bochs.deb”, which you can download… HERE

Once you have those things, follow these instructions:
1. Transfer “bochs.deb” to /private/var/mobile.
2. Run MobileTerminal on your iPhone.
3. Type in the following:
su
alpine
dpkg -i bochs.deb
4. It will then install everything for you. Do this command to exit out of Terminal:
killall Terminal
5. Do a respring and you should notice “Bochs” on your homescreen. Start it up.

Enjoy Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 on your iPhone or iPod Touch, despite how slow it may be!

PS: Windows 3.1 boots considerably faster than Windows 95, and is considerably faster, too.

Via The SWEET spot

Mac OS X security guru Charlie Miller has discovered a gaping security hole in the SMS application in the iPhone OS 3.0., According to Engadget Mobile . As Mr. Miller puts it, the vulnerability allows hackers to: “run software code on the phone sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network in order to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.” Clearly this is a problem for everyone who uses SMS and in the interest of not allowing any real world attacks using this security hole to be deployed, Mr. Miller didn’t disclose the methods or tools needed to successfully breach the privacy of victims. More than likely Apple will be including a fix for this in it’s upcoming release of iPhone OS 3.1 which recently was made available in beta form to developers . Related Posts AT&T Confirms MMS Won’t Cost Extra For Text Bundle Customers Apple Patent Describes Motion Activated Lock-Down Mode Apple Patent Filing Describes Advanced Security For iPhone Unofficial iPhone SDK Feedback Project Begins Apple’s Remote iPhone App Updated, Now Includes Apple TV Control.

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