17.11.2009 18:51 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

iPhone security: Experts compromise email names and passwords over WiFi

A team of researchers have successfully compromised the security that protects sensitive data being transferred over WiFi networks in four phones, the Nokia N95, Windows HTC tilt, T-Mobile G1 Android and Apple iPhone 3GS.A team from SMobile Systems managed a “man-in-the-middle” exploit, in which communications on an unsecured wireless network are intercepted, re-routed, and used to enable or disable connections and to replay and view communications between the systems.Using the hacker’s toolkit of Arpspoof and SSLStrip, the researchers succeeded in gaining access to email user names and passwords by breaking into the SSL encryption on the devices.On the iPhone 3GS, the researchers managed to gain email user name and password through an SSL

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