[PSA] [Non-Gaming Post] Flying an iPhone? Read Me....

[cliodhna]

Oh dear.

How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World': On Thursday, two researchers plan to reveal an unpatched iPhone bug that could virally infect phones via SMS.

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

Comments

[apexmachina]

Well that's kind of irritating that Apple wasn't able to push a patch out with a month lead time.

At least M&M followed the responsible security researcher protocol.

Cue Apple asking Federal authorities to stop the talk in 3..2..1..

[dunriver]

My security guy is one of the speakers at the BH conference and he's been talking about this for weeks now, and not too surprising - he disabled his SMS weeks ago.... go figure.