Canadian iPhone users may want to think about hanging up for a while if two hacker heavyweights prove they can infiltrate the system and put a worm inside the Apple.
Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner say they've found a security-weakness in Apple's iPhone which would allow a hacker to gain control of the device by sending one single SMS - or text message - and they're giving a how-to talk Thursday at the 2009 Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
Once the technique is made public, it won't be long before it ends up going viral on YouTube and hacker message boards around the globe.Miller, one of the top computer hackers in the U.S. and Mulliner, a PhD student at Technical University of Berlin, focusing on the security of mobile devices, say they found the vulnerability in June and alerted Apple to the problem, but the computer giant hasn't come out with any official statement or a security update to combat the problem. Apple didn't immediately return calls to Canwest News Service Thursday.
Canadian Tech-guru, Jesse Hirsh says if the hackers have cracked the code there is little iPhone users can do, for now.
Almost every mobile-phone user, worldwide, uses text-messaging daily, if not hourly, so Canada's iPhone users are just as vulnerable as those in the rest of the world, said Hirsh.
He said users should think of the iPhone as a computer, which is vulnerable to hacking.
