Blackhacker

IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says - New York Times
A team of computer security consultants say they have found a flaw in Apple’s wildly popular iPhone that allows them to take control of the device.

The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.

Here I thought that nobody was making the one missing (and to me obvious) mobile device and I just came across the SECOND incarnation of that. A device I called the backpack drive but Agere Calls it Blue Onyx. Seagate calls it DAVE Digital Audio Video Experience. Whats cool is Seagate decided to make it an open-source system, allowing third-party developers to write apps to interface with DAVE from various devices. I expect to see some cool apps for this thing when it comes out later this year. Below is a demo courtesy of Scoble

C|Net

"Evil twin hot-spots present a hidden danger for Web users," said Phil Nobles, an academic researcher who specializes in wireless Internet and cybercrime. "Because wireless networks are based on radio signals, they can be easily detected by unauthorized users tuning into the same frequency."

Once an unknowing user has connected to an evil twin, a hacker can intercept transmitted data. Users are invited to log into the evil twin with bogus log-in prompts and can be lured into passing sensitive data such as user names and passwords.

This vulnerability seems to only effect public hotspots, and not your private WLAN, at least as long as your private WLAN is using some sort of encryption so that clients won’t connect to "Twins."