Frustrated researcher details iPhone security bugs
Tired of getting the brushoff from Apple Inc., Israeli researcher Aviv Raff today disclosed technical details about a pair of iPhone security flaws that he first reported more than two months ago.
Raff, best known as a browser vulnerability researcher, told Apple in July that he had uncovered bugs in the iPhone's Mail application as well as in its version of Safari that could be used to trick users into clicking on malicious links and boost the amount of spam they face.
But after Apple continued to defer patching and declined to set a date for fixing the flaws, Raff decided to go public. "Two and a half months later, and still there is no patch for those vulnerabilities," he complained in a post to his blog. "I've asked Apple several times for a schedule, but they have refused to provide the fix date. Three versions (v2.0.1, v2.02, v2.1) have been released since I provided them with the details, and they are still 'working on it.'"
