Mobile Archive

A security firm has run the first remote exploits on Apple’s iPhone, proving that the widely popular smart phone is vulnerable not only to data theft but also to being turned into a remote snooping device.A trio of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators—Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Joshua Mason—have created an exploit for the iPhone’s Safari Web browser wherein they use an unmodified device to surf to a maliciously crafted drive-by download site. The site downloads exploit code that forces the iPhone to make an outbound connection to a server controlled by the security firm.The compromised device then can be forced to send out personal data, including SMS text messages, contact information, call history, voice mail information, passwords, e-mail messages and browsing history.”We only retrieved

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More than ever before, WorldWide Partner Conference was a serious demo fest with lots of cool technology shown off during the keynotes. Silverlight, Photosyth, Seadragon, Surface and more. Hats off to the WPC folks for showing off our innovations to an audience that sometimes only really gets to see (and sell) our business software. I already have lots of interest from UK Partners on Silverlight and Surface in particular. Needless to say I’ll need one of the latter for research purposes :)Check ’em out Microsoft Surface Allison Watson picked her favorite demos of the week, including Microsoft Surface. Learn more about Surface, the first surface computing platform. Live Labs Photosynth (and SeaDragon) Watch how a three-dimensional image is created from two-dimensional photos. See photos from

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