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Title: Apple fixes Malicious Charger Hack in iOS 7
Post by: HCK on August 01, 2013, 03:01:25 pm
Apple fixes Malicious Charger Hack in iOS 7
      


         
         
      
Earlier in the year, three security researchers Georgia Institute of Technology had announced that they can hack an iPhone with a malicious charger.
As promised, at the Black Hat security conference yesterday, the security researchers demonstrated how it was possible to hack an iPhone using a malicious charger called Mactans (scientific name of the Black Widow spider), using BeagleBoard, a low-power open-source hardware single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments that costs $45.  
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