Gigantic iPhone security hole found
Apple’s iPhone is touting itself as being ultra-secure. With Steve Jobs’ hand hovering over the iPhone app kill switch, and enterprise customers given the ability to wipe iPhones remotely, we can all sleep soundly at night. At least we could, until the latest gigantic loophope was discovered…
Apply a lock to your iPhone, and it’ll ask you for a four-digit passcode. However, it’ll also let you make an emergency call. Go into the menu to dial the emergency number, perform a quick double-click on the ‘home’ button, and your phone’s favourites menu will appear.
Not only that, if you’ve changed the settings then whatever you’ve applied to the double tap action will pop open. That could be your iPod too. The gigantic security flaw lets unauthorised users call any number they like from your phone. If you’ve assigned web sites or e-mail addresses to your contacts, they can tap into them too.
