Showing posts with label Radware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radware. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

iPhone - Tablet - Mini-Computer - What??

May be we need something in between a smart phone and a tiny note book that could do all. To provide users a satisfying experience Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sony, and RIM spending enormous amount of money on the R&D to stay up in the race with beautiful skinniest model bundled up with all the possible features in one. These are the big players offering the best cell phone technology today. However, Apple is dormant player this stream that could come with some revolutionary idea like no one thought about iPod, until it existed. What our silent killer Apple is up to? No one knows, people have some educated guesses what Apple should or could come up with? From touch to tactile? What will the next version of the iPhone have that the current one doesn’t? Will it have a keyboard for those who haven’t been touched — in a good way — by the iPhone’s touchscreen? How about GPS capabilities? Will there be iPhones in different sizes, similar to what Apple has done with its iPod digital music player? How about a 'tablet' or 'mini-computer' or could sell the digital books from it iTune store, making the tablet another e-book reader and competitor to Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle.

On the contrary, there are vulnerabilities in iPhone software that communicates the sms function. What happens in this vulnerability that users can not detect that there is malicious virus in the sms message received. These hacker are pain in the neck for the iPhone users to keep updating their PCs and iPhones. The funny part Government knows how it is designed with tons of information up there on the internet with tutorials to hack a system. What hackers has to say in the conferernce attended by several security professionals at Black Hat. "It is not illegal to disclose ways to hack into computer systems, though it is against the law to use it to break into them. " :)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Safari Browser of the iPhone

New research has concluded that the Safari browser of the iPhone 1.1.4 is vulnerable to attacks, which may lead to service denial and in turn, result in a system crash. This design flaw was detected by the researchers at Radware, an application delivery solutions company, earlier this week. The researches say the flaw triggers a series of “memory allocation operations on its memory pool”, which then triggers another different bug within its garbage collector.

To exploit Safari’s vulnerability, an iPhone user would have to open any malicious HTML pages that contain Javascript, usually as a social engineering tactic like e-mail phishing. The Radware researchers say that in a worst-case scenario, the users would experience a denial of service attack, which could result in crash of the entire Safari browser. Once the browser crashes, its malfunction could escalate to a point of paralyzing the entire iPhone.