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Title: Your iPhone Could Be Poisoned by Its Charger
Post by: HCK on June 04, 2013, 07:01:12 pm
Your iPhone Could Be Poisoned by Its Charger


Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to hack into iOS devices through a modified charger. Billy Lau, a research scientist at the institute, together with two Ph.D. students, will present a paper on it at Black Hat USA 2013. It took only 1 minute for an iOS device to be compromised after being plugged into a malicious charger.


http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/78185.html