Any IT managers not already disturbed by the appearance of iPhones in the office might change their minds after news that a group of ’security researchers’ claims to have found a hack that allows confidential data to be stolen from Apple’s last must-have gadget.
By creating a malicious html page, and then pointing the phone’s Safari web browser at it, the hackers were able to access all sorts of private information from the phone. Not good news for private individuals - but even worse for organizations when you consider that recent research estimates that more than 50 percent of staff regularly copy files from the corporate network to their personal storage devices.
According to Silicon.com: “The security researchers claim the iPhone’s “most glaring” security fault is that all major processes run with administrative privileges. This is a problem because a compromise of any application gives a attacker full access to the device.”
Still think iPhones are harmless ‘gadgets’?
