The iPhone as a hacking platform: Shellcode can give attackers complete control of device

摘要

The question of security on Apple's iPhone was raised almost as soon as the wildly popular wireless device was rolled out in lune. Now a security researcher is saying that the iPhone has been turned into a "pocket-sized…network enabled root shell." HD Moore has pub lished shellcode for the smart phone and instruc tions on how to use it as a portable hacking plat form．Because of his work, Moore's highly popular Metasploit Framework penetration-testing tool can now be used to eas ily write point-and-click exploits targeting iPhone application vulnerabili ties-exploits that give an attacker complete control of the device, given that all of the phone's applications run with root access.