Three easy steps to remote iPhone snooping
Mobile devices can present a serious threat to your network security because it can be surprisingly easy to hijack their data connections. With the ability to browse through a user's mobile data traffic a hacker may easily find confidential information such as usernames and passwords that they can then use to attack your corporate network successfully.
Hijacking an iPhone, for example, is a relatively simple process, according to Roberto Gassira and Roberto Piccirillo, researchers at Mobile Security Lab. The two were talking at the Hack In The Box Security Conference 2010 in Amsterdam earlier this month. All that's needed is the victim's phone number, the iPhone Configuration Utility available free from Apple for OS X or Windows, and a proxy server running the open source Apache server software, with a couple of extra open source modules.
