haha, c'est pour demontrer aux ardents defenseurs de Mac et Linux que les arguments disant que le systeme Windows est plus ci plus ca ne sont pas necessairement vrais.
________________________________ From: Martin Pham Dinh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:13:39 AM Subject: URG-L: discussion non medicale: une fois populaire, des failles deviennent interessantes Il n'y a pas de plateforme invulnérable. Ce n'est qu'une question d'interet. Les hackers s'interessent à Windows parce que le "marché" est le plus important. Eventuellement par contre, il y aura plus de smartphone dans le monde que de PC...et le Iphone est le leader actuel de ce segment. On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Kenneth Chen <[email protected]> wrote: Tenez, avec la popularite des iPhones, on commence a s'interesser plus a leurs failles... > >http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/cell_phones/accessories/digital_trends/article/3696 >Mac Security Expert Identifies iPhone SMS Vulnerability >More from Digital Trends > * Digital Trends Home > * Reviews > * News > * Videos > * Shop for the latest products >At the SyScan security conference being held in Singapore this week, Macintosh >security expert Charlie Miller has outlined an SMS-based vulnerability in the >Apple iPhone that could let attackers listen in on calls, access the GPS unit >to locate the phone, execute arbitrary programs, and even let the phone >participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other >Internet sites via the Internet. >Miller didn't go into significant detail on the exploit, although he planned >to discuss the possible attack in greater detail at the Black Hat security >conference later this month in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apple is expected to offer a >patch for the vulnerability before then. >The vulnerability enables attackers to send a program to the iPhone-140 bytes >at a time via SMS-which the iPhone then executes as its root user with no >interaction or confirmation required from the iPhone's owner. In theory, the >exploit could be used to access virtually any of the iPhone's functions or run >any program, if enough exploitative SMS messages could be delivered to the >iPhone. >The exploit serves as an illustration of the potential pitfalls of ever >more-sophisticated mobile devices: as users are increasingly isolated from the >fundamentals of the technologies they're using, they often have no way to know >whether their devices or personal information are vulnerable or have been >compromised. >________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift?Give the gift of Flickr! -- Martin Pham Dinh [email protected] http://martinphamdinh.googlepages.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
