Gadget and Technology News: iPhone

Not only was mentioned as a favorite gadget, a research report reveals IPAD and the iPhone is also a favorite target of cybercrime in 2011.

This was disclosed security firm McAfee Threat Predictions in his research project. McAfee stated in the next year, cyber attacks against the Apple platform, especially mobile devices such as iPad and the iPhone will increase.

This is because the growing popularity of these gadgets and more and more people, especially among companies that use them. If the first relatively free from the Apple platform botnet and trojan, McAfee says this kind of attack would generally happen in the next year.

Admin quoted from Cnet, on Thursday (30/12/2010), such attacks are not only targeting Apple gadgets but also other mobile platforms. The users mainly face certain attacks from the application without such supervision of the Android Market, which allows malicious applications to access user data.

Do not forget, besides that new media such as Google TV and social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are also very vulnerable. McAfee provides notes on this year began a proliferation of application-controlled botnet.

A crack was detected on the iPhone 4. This gap is known allows anyone to gain access to phone functions without having to enter a passcode.
Cracks that had tried Ben Grubb and the team from the Sydney Morning Herald that involves only a few buttons on the screen and physical buttons for accessing phone.
"With this method, we can make the iPhone 4 phone calls and send emails from your contacts list. All this is done without entering a PIN number," Grubb wrote, as quoted on Wednesday (10/27/2010).
Grubb and his team conducted the same experiment iPhone 3G. As a result, the previous version of the iPhone is also known to have the same gap. In fact, the iPhone 3G at first sight seem not vulnerable at all.
Some websites mentioned, the latest software version for the iPhone is currently available for software developers as IOS 4.2 beta, reportedly will be facing this method.
When released in November, this software will patch the gap. That means users can not break the security of the iPhone 4 in this way. There has been no official statement from Apple regarding this.
Apple itself seems to have not shown an indication of whether to fix this problem before the official release IOS 4.2. Of course this is in the spotlight because consumers look at one example, other companies like Microsoft for example, usually hastily issued a software fix to patch the crack that was detected remedy rather than wait until the release of new software