Experts at Independent Security Evaluators, a computer protection consultancy, claim to have found a way to gain complete access to the phone, billed by its creators, Apple, as the mobile phone of the future.
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New software hack turns the iPhone into a prepaid cellphone but still only with AT&T/Cingular.
One of the greatest complaints about the release of Apple’s iPhone was the locking of the phone to an AT&T two-year contract.
While Jon Lech Johansen, the software engineer who first developed the crack of DVD’s copy protection, has been able to develop a hack that activates the iPhone so that it can at least play music and perform WiFi tricks without the AT&T contract, the phone remained locked so that it could not be used to make phone calls.
The latest hack moves the iPhone one step closer to cellphone-nirvana of being able to link up with any cellphone network service provider. While it’s still not there just yet, the ability of this new hack will at least bring cost control back into the hands of the consumer.
To perform the hack, you need an Intel-based Mac computer and the tutorial found at HacktheiPhone.com.
According to Erica Sadun’s The Unofficial Apple Weblog, the hack also enables data downloads to be made however, the costs isn’t cheap at one-cent per kilobyte with Google’s webpage costing $US0.11 to download.
The hack also enables the iPhone to send and receive text mess
SPI Labs warns iPhone users not to use a special feature that lets them dial telephone numbers over the Web using the iPhone’s Safari browser.
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The days are moving ahead, security experts are digging the iPhone deeper and deeper to find its pros and cons.
Security researchers with Web application testing specialists SPI Dynamics are drawing attention to a feature on Apple’s hot new iPhone that they say could be subverted by hackers to attack users of the device and potentially monitor their phone calls.
In a blog posted to the security company’s Web site on July 16, SPI security researcher Billy Hoffman proposes that a feature in the device’s Safari browser that allows iPhone users to dial any phone number displayed on the browser by touching the digits on-screen could soon be subverted by hackers.
If capable of luring iPhone users to malware sites or legitimate sites infected with cross-site scripting attacks, Hoffman said, attackers could infect the devices with spyware that could allow them to track calls, redirect calls placed by a user, place unauthorized calls from the browser, program the device to make repeated calls for an infinite amount of time, or prevent the phones from calling at all.
SPI Labs is warning iPhone owners not to use the device’s Web dialer, intended to give folks an easy was to call numbers listed on Web pages. SPI says miscreants could use a bug in the feature to redirect calls to 900 numbers or monitor calls placed.
Because this vulnerability can be launched from Web sites, everybody who has an iPhone has the potential to get exploited.
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Apple has launched developer web site for iPhone developers which provides extensive guidelines and details for iPhone centric development. So any one who wishes to become an iPhone Consultant must visit this site.
Developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and provide seamless integration with iPhone applications and services including making a phone call, sending an email, and displaying a location in Google Maps.
Apple has launched a Web site for developers of its recently released iPhone. Part of the Apple Developer Connection, the Web site outlines guidelines and Safari compatibility when making applications for the iPhone.
Developers hoping to make applications for the iPhone have to do so inside of Apple’s Safari Web browser. By using Web 2.0 applications Apple says developers can make applications that look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone. (more…)
Apple has released web development guidelines for the iPhone.
The guidelines are available from the company’s Developer Connection website.
Apple observes that the version of Safari installed on the iPhone employs the same Web Kit engine as Safari on a computer. The guidelines aim to help developers understand the capabilities of the device; offers advice on established design practises for the web and furnishes developers with iPhone-specific design principles.
These guidelines should help developers prepare web content and design a website or web-based application for iPhone.
The document deals with iPhone interaction, tried-and-tested design tips; integrating with iPhone functions; optimising pages and more.
DVD Jon has added another notch to his gun, having managed to hack into the Apple iPhone and activate some of its features without signing up for service through carrier AT&T. The notorious Norwegian hacker posted code online that lets users turn on the phone’s music-playing and WiFi capabilities, but not its voice-calling functionality.