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Written by Wayne
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Saturday, 18 August 2012 16:05 |
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An Apple iOS security researcher who goes by the handle pod2g has unearthed a bug in Apple's iOS platform. The bug, which pod2g says others should know about, is present in all versions of iOS up to and including iOS 6 beta 4. The bug essentially allows hackers to spoof the reply-to number in a text message. Text messages are of course bits of text sent between cellphones. Americans send billions and billions of them to one another each month. They're such a common form of communication that most people probably never stop to think that they might be insecure. In a post on his blog, pod2g explains that text message are converted from the original text to PDUs (protocol description units), which are sent to the baseband and then fired off across the network. "In the text payload, a section called UDH (user data header) is optional but defines [a] lot of advanced features not all mobiles are compatible with," wrote pod2g...Follow this on windows8newsinfo forum.
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