Yup, I agree. I also feel that this sure sounds like the normal built in feature of the phone to remotely backup phone's data. Reading of the whitepaper is certainly needed to know for sure what they found. Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ahmad Elkhatib Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:43 PM To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; funsec@linuxbox.org Subject: Re: [funsec] RE: [Full-disclosure] iPhone has a built-in spyware module? >From the sounds of it it seems like backup and restore functionality of your >phone which is being offered by carriers as a value added service to backup >all your contacts,calendar items, tasks etc over the air. So it might have >been that the iphone has that function, but yeah we would need more details to >find out whether it was implemented insecurely or not. On 7/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Ok, who has this whitepaper? I know someone does on this list! Cough it up :-) Seriously, I would like to read that whitepaper if anyone has it. I seriously doubt that it's true, but it really gives me that conspiracy itch that MUST be scratched :-) thanks all! Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Seltzer Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:56 PM To: funsec@linuxbox.org Subject: [funsec] RE: [Full-disclosure] iPhone has a built-in spyware module? (Cross-posting from F-D. I hate posting on F-D and getting a dozen "out of office" and "this guy doesn't work here anymore" responses for my trouble.) >>http://vsiphone.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-has-built-in-spyware-modul e.html "Russian hackers found a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser - all your personal information can be stolen." Does anyone out there believe this? It's a bit ham-handed for Apple. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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