IPhone hacked by Exploiting Safari in iOS 5, iOS 6

Re:IPhone hacked by Exploiting Safari in iOS 5, iOS 6 by bathat on Thursday September 20, 2012 @11:00PM (#4551996)

Wonderful. So, now owners of the iPhone 4 and 4s will have two options:

1) Upgrade to a newer version of iOS to patch the exploit, and suffer a major functionality regression with regard to maps.

2) Not upgrade and risk having all the personal information on the phone stolen by a malicious website.

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Re:IPhone hacked by Exploiting Safari in iOS 5, iOS 6 by Splines on Friday September 21, 2012 @12:12AM (#4552197)

There's no middle ground? I assume that Opera wouldn't be vulnerable? What about the browsers that wrap UIWebView like Chrome?

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Re:IPhone hacked by Exploiting Safari in iOS 5, iOS 6 by bathat on Friday September 21, 2012 @01:57AM (#4552526)

Well... maybe I'm being too hyperbolic. But, I am under the impression that Safari is still the default handler for http things. So, links from the mail app or maps will open in Safari. I don't think it's that outrageous to suggest that malicious links have ever been sent via email.

We can all sit here on HN and say that you shouldn't just go around clicking on everything that arrives in your inbox, but phishing is still something that banks deal with.

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Re:IPhone hacked by Exploiting Safari in iOS 5, iOS 6 by adrr on Friday September 21, 2012 @02:19AM (#4552567)

What about original IPad owners who can't upgrade to IOS6.

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