Thursday, July 28, 2011

NEWS: Sniffer hijacks secure traffic from unpatched iPhones

Unpatched iPhones can be exploited even with availability of SSL. One of the methods, published 9 years ago, is so easy that "my mother could actually use this", says Chet Wisniewski, a security researcher with Sophos.

Moral of the story, unless you have iOS 5 with over-the-air-updates, make sure to plug in your iPhone and get it updated.

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