Apple today released iPhone OS 3.0.1, addressing an SMS security vulnerability disclosed at yesterday’s Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The release of iPhone OS 3.0.1 has been expected since a spokesperson for UK iPhone carrier O2 claimed earlier today that a fix for the issue would be coming from Apple on Saturday.
Apple has also posted a security document describing the issue.
As usual, jailbreakers and unlockers should NOT update as it will remove the jailbreak/unlock.
If you don’t care about this, and you still want to update, you can do it via iTunes, or you can direct download the new iPhone firmware 3.0.1 here :
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.
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For all iPhone users who miss SMS delivery notification, here is a simple trick to make it work on your iPhone.
Just enter these special characters before your message and you will get notification as soon as it gets delivered.
Since this is a feature of the cell carrier, this trick will work on other phones as well. The carrier will also strip out the special characters when it delivers the message to the recipient.
If you know codes of other carriers, please mention it in the comments. Thanks!
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To save all your Contacts/SMS/Notes/Calendar, SSH your iPhone or use iPhone browser
For Contacts :-
Go to location /var/mobile/Library/AddressBook.
You will find two files there AddressBook.sqlitedb & AddressBookImages.sqlitedb(for contact images)
Save these two files to a safe location.
After formatting ur PC or restorin ur phone just go to the above path on ur iPhone and and rename both the orignal files and replace it with the ones which you saved.
Respring
You can follow the same process for SMS , Notes , Calendar just backup the sms.db & notes.db files from /var/mobile/Library/SMS , /var/mobile/Library/Notes & /var/mobile/Library/Calendar respectively.
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Via a simple SMS, the iPhone can be hacked, according to Cjarlie Miller. Miller is a well-known securityspecialist and author of the Mac Hacker’s Handbook. Via the SMS vulnerability you’ll get access to the root of the iPhone. The SMS leak will give the attacker the possiblity to activate certain code via an SMS-message sent to you, Miller mentioned on the SyScan exchange.
The code can for example, track the location of the phone, turn-on the microphone or totally block it. By sending several SMS-messages written in binary code, an entire program can be send. This program then can get access to the root of the iPhone, causing lots of trouble.
Such leaks in applications are not that bad, because the applications run in their own sandbox. Imagine such a sandbox as an island where all bridges to the shore are up and not accessible.
Apple’s working on a patch for the SMS vulnerability. That patch is expected to be ready at the end of this month. After the patch is released, Miller will describe further details about the leak on the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
There’s also a positive side to all this. Miller tells that the version of OS X for the iPhone is still safer than the entire OS X for desktops and laptops. That’s because applications like Java and Flash are not available on the iPhone OS.
Apple werkt aan een patch voor de SMS kwetsbaarheid. Deze verwachten ze aan het eind van deze maand klaar te hebben. Zodra deze patch uitgegeven is zal Miller verdere details over het lek beschrijven in een presentatie op de Black Hat-conferentie in Las Vegas.
“The iPhone is more secure than OS X, but SMS could be a critical vulnerability,” says Miller.
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