Don't talk to strangers, keep your drink
where you can see it, and don't use
anybody else's iPhone charger. That third
safety rule might become common
practice now that researchers have
created an iPhone charger than can hack
your phone in less than a minute.
The researchers, Billy Lau, Yeongjin Jang,
and Chengyu Song, are from Georgia
Institute of Technology . They will present
their new device, called Mactans, at an IT
security conference in July. The product
shows how "an attacker can hide their
software in the same way Apple hides its
own built-in applications," according to
the presentation's description.
Fortunately, the power to hack phones
via a charger is only in the good guys'
hands as of now. The researchers who
created Mactans aren't trying to hack
anyone; they're simply showing it can be
done.
The device uses a BeagleBoard processor,
which, while small, is still too big to fit
into a traditional iPhone charger, as
Forbes points out. It could, however, fit
into a charging case, external charger, or
other device.
Lau, Jang, and Song write that they
worked on a very small budget, and it's
scary to think of what hackers with more
time, resources, and malicious intent
could do.
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Revealled!!! Iphone charger that can hack your phone...
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