iPhone 5, Galaxy S4 zero-day exploits revealed at HP Pwn2Own contest Two Japanese hacking teams win over $67,000 in prizes from HP for finding vulnerabilities The vulnerability discovered in the iPhone 5 using iOS 7 is an exploit against the Safari browser that lets the attacker “weaponize” the victim’s phone by compromising it to steal contact data, photos, or carry out attacks such as taking over the victim’s Facebook page The vulnerability in the Samsung Galaxy S4 was carried out against at least one app that ships with the device, though HP is not saying exactly which one or ones. The vulnerabilities allow the attacker to wholly compromise the device in several ways, such as using a drive-by download to install malware on the phone. “They can do whatever they want”
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:05:20 +0000
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