iPhone vulnerable to hacker attacks

Security experts have uncovered flaws in Apple Incs iPhone that they said hackers can exploit to take control of the popular device,using the tactic for identity theft and other crimes. Users need to be warned that their iPhones are not entirely secure and Apple should try to repair the vulnerability as soon as possible,they said at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas,one of the worlds top forums for exchanging information on computer security threats.

Its scary. I dont want people taking over my iPhone, Charlie Miller,a security analyst with consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators,said in an interview. Miller and Collin Mulliner,a PhD student at the Technical University of Berlin,also discovered a method that allow hackers to easily knock a victims iPhone off a carriers network. It prevents users from making calls,accessing the Internet and exchanging text messages.

The researchers showed the audience how to break into iPhones by sending computer code via the phones SMS system. Mobiles use SMS to send and receive text messages along with software upgrades. They said users cannot detect that it is receiving the malicious code. It is not illegal to disclose ways to hack into computer systems,though it is against the law to use it to break into them.