iPhone 2.0 Software Update Includes 7 Security Fixes
July 12, 2008
The iPhone 2.0 software update fixes seven Safari bugs and three flaws in the Web Kit browser engine used by Safari. One of these flaws were exploited by a veteran hacker, Richard Miller, in March. Apple patched Miller’s Safari vulnerability for the desktop in April, but waited until July 11th to issue a similar patch for the iPhone.
Back in March, Miller was taking part in the CanSecWest Conference in Vancouver, Canada, where computer experts were invited to break into any of three machines - a MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2, Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Vista SP1, and the Fujitsu U810 notebook running Ubuntu 7.10.
Miller, who works as an analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, chose the Apple Inc operating system for a simple reason: ”It was the easiest one of the three,” - he said. He managed to hack into the MacBook Air in only 2 minutes by visiting a Web site with exploit code he created. The code allowed him to take control of the computer through Apple’s Safari browser in less than 2 minutes.
You can read about the security content of iPhone v2.0 and iPod touch v2.0 on Apple Support web site. To read Palluxo!’s review of the iPhone 2.0 software and download this software, go here.
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