iPhone too has lots of such cases. Don't be blind in trusting apples security. See these
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/29/iphone_phishing_threat/ http://www.discountvouchers.co.uk/news/57853535.html http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/bank-apps-for-phones/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/yet-another-hot-startup-leaves-a-gaping-security-hole-in-its-iphone-app/ http://www.katonda.com/news/23/2010/2164 Apple's ad platform iAd also has a serious security hole which may allow cyber-criminal in a privileged network position "to cause a call to be initiated. A URL handling issue exists in iAd Content Display. An iAd is requested by an application, either automatically or through explicit user action. By injecting the contents of a requested ad with a link containing a URL scheme used to initiate a call, an attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause a call to occur. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/10/iphone_forced_calls/ Researcher Nitesh Dhanjani shows here how the planting of a simple iframe on a webpage can force the Safari browser to open Skype and dial a phone number or send a message to another Skype user. As long as Skype is installed and it stores the victim's account password, the attack will work with no warning, he wrote On Nov 30, 3:19 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 29, 11:02 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I certainly think that Apple's move is both chilling (it makes Microsoft > > look nice) and dumb (because it attracted a lot of publicity to 1) their > > practices and 2) Android) but they should definitely be allowed to accept or > > reject any content to be published on their property. > > I agree - a bad move by Apple, but not illegal. I mean people don't > sue Google just because there was a phishing app stealing your bank > data (http://www.osnews.com/story/22723) or an app that sent off > expensive text messages (http://www.fastcompany.com/1680011/android- > gets-its-first-ever-virus-youre-a-mandroid-my-son - I know, there are > all these warnings about what an app does before you install it on > Android, but how do you know an app won't legitimately send away text > message beforehand, and consumers are trained to click "OK" when asked > "Are you sure?"). That's just the way Google / Apple run their store. > > Walmart decided not to carry CDs with explicit lyrics, so you gotta > buy them someplace else (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/wal- > mart/impact.html). So Apple will argue that if you don't like Apple's > policies, buy an Android phone - and I think courts will side with > them, especially in the hyper-competitive mobile market right now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
