วันจันทร์ที่ 7 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2554

Hacker’s iOS Developer Account Shut Down After Malware Uploaded to App Store

In a news registered by Forbes, coder Charlie playwright was healthy to upload a malware-infested app into the App Store:

At the SysCan word in island next week, playwright plans to inform a method that exploits a damage in Apple’s restrictions on cipher signing on iOS devices, the section measure that allows exclusive Apple-approved commands to separate in an iPhone or iPad’s memory. Using his methodâ€"and playwright has already naturalised a sleeper app in Apple’s App Store to shew the trickâ€"an app can sound bag to a far machine that downloads newborn unapproved commands onto the figure and executes them at will, including concealing the user’s photos, reading contacts, making the sound vibrate or play sounds, or otherwise repurposing normal iOS app functions for vindictive ends

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Since his discovery of this major utilise in iOS, Apple has closed downbound Miller’s developer statement and pulled his authorised app from the App Store.

A former NSA analyst, playwright is digit of the most highly complete iPhone hackers, and has a gift for exploiting the device. Just this spring, he won the Pwn2Own word here in Vancouver for a ordinal year in a bed for ‘pwning’ an iPhone 4 faster than anyone else.

Miller just noted the following on twitter:

For the record, without a actual app in the AppStore, people would feature Apple wouldn’t okay an app that took advantage of this flaw.

Apple module most probable near this utilise when iOS 5.0.1 is released in a some weeks to come battery chronicle issues. I’m not astonied Apple would pull his account, as he desecrated the cost of the developer account. Yet at the aforementioned time, he helped Apple come a massive section hole in iOS. I surmisal we can feature Charlie ‘took digit for the team’, eh?

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