Tag archive: Charlie Miller

Companies like Google and Facebook reward hackers with monetary incentives for finding bugs and security holes in their software. Apple has taken the opposite approach. TG Daily reports that security researcher Charlie Miller was ousted from the iOS developer program after revealing a security flaw in iPhones and iPads. He discovered, and made public, that it's possible to create an app for the App Store that passes all of Apple's… Read More

Apple reviews every app that is available in the app store to make sure it is safe to use. Forbes reported on Charlie Miller an Apple security researcher who found a way for seemingly safe app to turn evil. Miller created an app that was able to pass all of Apple’s review tests and was available on the app store. Apple has removed the app that Miller used as an example of the security hole, and has removed him from the Apple developer program.… Read More

Well-known Mac security gnat Charlie Miller, a researcher at Accuvant consultancy and co-author of The Mac Hacker's Handbook, says he's found a hole in MackBook security through a little-studied area—the battery. According to a Forbes article, Miller says the easily overlooked weak point in an Apple Laptop's security—be it Macbook, Macbook Air or Macbook Pro—is the firmware in a chip that controls the batteries. The… Read More

Apple has never had particularly warm relations with the computer security community, and has been frustratingly tight-lipped about the status of known problems and vulnerabilities in Mac OS X: sometimes Apple jumps right on top of security problems in Mac OS X, and sometimes they linger unpatched for months. However, the company may be trying to turn over a new leaf with its forthcoming Mac OS X Lion: it's asking security researches for… Read More

Last week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner demonstrated how an iPhone could be taken over with a specially-crafted text message. Once an attacker has done that, he can install malware on the phone, if desired, or use it to perform spam more attacks on others. Unsurprisingly, this received a lot of publicity, especially as the flaw also exists in the Android and Windows Mobile… Read More

The annual Black Hat security conference has gotten underway in Las Vegas, and, as promised, security researchers have detailed a technique that, in theory, could enable attackers to take over Apple's popular iPhone using nothing by SMS messages which would be invisible to the iPhone's owner. Apple has also took another hit on the chin with the demonstration of a proof-of-concept rootkit for Apple's Mac OS X operating… Read More

At the SyScan security conference being held in Singapore this week, Macintosh security expert Charlie Miller has outlined an SMS-based vulnerability in the Apple iPhone that could let attackers listen in on calls, access the GPS unit to locate the phone, execute arbitrary programs, and even let the phone participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other Internet sites via the Internet. Miller didn't go… Read More

It’s a week since the first Android handset, the T-Mobile G1, hit the stores, but a trio of researchers have already discovered a security flaw in the Android mobile platform. Charlie Miller, Mark Daniel and Jake Honoroff, who work for security testing and analysis firm Independent Security Evaluators, have disclosed that a successful hack could allow the attacker to capture all the stored information on the phone’s browser.… Read More

The man who first hacked the iPhone has done it again on Apple’s latest golden child, the MacBook Air. The hot new notebook was the first to fall in a hacking contest held at the CanSecWest security conference, netting Charlie Miller his $10,000 prize in just two minutes. The PWN2OWN contest featured a Sony Vaio running Ubuntu 7.10, a Fujitsu U810 running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, and a MacBook Air Running OSX 10.5.2. The… Read More

Apple’s nice-guy image, chic hardware and premium prices may make its products look ill-suited for a branch of the armed services, but the United States Army has found something to like about the brand: security. According to Forbes, the Army is adopting Macs in an attempt to further harden their networks to attack. The move toward Macs has actually been in motion since 2005, when an officer suggested more diversity in the types of… Read More