iPhone 3GS the best smartphone but carries faulty encryption?
After its worldwide success, the iPhone 3GS may be acclaimed by business organizations. It has lots of apps like Quickoffice Mobile and Accept Credit Cards that lure these organizations. But a word of caution for them, don’t be coaxed by all this, as you might not know when your iPhone is being robbed of its contents.
Yes, this is shocking but true; iPhone's encryption is not potent enough to ward off the hackers from accessing your sensitive info. A little bit of freebie jailbreaking software like Red Sn0w and Purple Ra1n is all you need to extract anything from an iPhone. Within 2 minutes you can extract live data and in less than an hour, 45 minutes, the whole disk image.
LoopHoles:
Pressing the Home button, and even zooming in on a screen, automatically creates a screenshot temporarily stored in the iPhone’s memory, which can be accessed later. And then there’s the keyboard cache: key strokes logged in a file on the phone, which can contain information such as credit card numbers or confidential messages typed in Safari. Cached keyboard text can be recovered from a device dating back a year or more,
Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone developer and a hacker who teaches forensics courses on recovering data from iPhones said.
Apple's reaction to this:
Apple has denied to comment on this as of yet. But earlier last year, Apple hinted about a remote kill switch for iPhone apps, which would wipe out any suspicious app if it tries to make way into the iPhone. This switch never made it into iPhone, as of yet.
Apples iPhone may be the best smartphone till date, but with such loopholes, no one will want to make his sensitive data vulnerable to the malicious hackers. Apple, watch out for the damn hackers.
Via: Wired
