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July 31, 2009
iPhone Virus Alert: Beware the Square Character Text Message
Security experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner have exposed an iPhone virus that could allow others to control your phone just by sending a a single square character in a text message. If you get the square character, turn off your phone immediately. You only have to receive the message to get hacked. Now that the security flaw has been exposed, hackers could build software that mounts this SMS attack within the next two weeks. Mashable's Ben Parr has the details in iPhone Hack Exposed: The Key Facts. [JH]
July 31, 2009 in Information Technology | Permalink
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WHY ARE PEOPLE SO MEAN? :(
Posted by: CRYSTAL | Jul 31, 2009 12:11:08 PM
