Hacking the iPhone

Faster than you can say hacked! In the first days of what can be described as yet another case study on marketing buzz generation done by evil brand managers, DVD Jon is coming up with universal unlocking app for the iPhone, the folks at Errata Security join the party by announcing several vulnerabilities within the device as well :

"So far, Errata has found three main flaws in the long-awaited and much-hyped mobile phone/music/video player/mobile Web/email client device: a heap overflow bug in its Safari browser; a potential denial-of-service bug in its Bluetooth feature; and a data "seepage" bug that could cause seemingly innocuous data to be exposed by chatty client applications over a WiFi connection."

And here's someone pen-testing the entire device to figure out that data is leaking out. On the compatibility front, this is already proving quite handy, and regarding this step-by-step disassembly of the iPhone, a factory manager in China is definitely in a good mood today.

Cartoon courtesy of Caglecartoons.