Taking Screenshots with your iPhone
If you want to capture an error message or just a plain screenshot, iPhoneMad.com has a tip that tells you how to capture a screenshot using a built-in iPhone feature.
You can read the article here:
http://iphonemad.com/taking-a-screenshot-with-your-iphone/
July 25th, 2008 - Posted in News | | 0 Comments
iPhone Forensics Book Rough Cut
O’Reilly’s have just released a “Rough Cut” version on their upcoming “iPhone Forensics” book. Looking at the TOC, it looks very cool. I’ve only just started reading it myself, but already I can clearly tell that if you have an interest in security, you will love this.
iPhone Forensics gives IT professionals, security personnel, and law enforcement the knowledge needed to conduct forensic analysis of an iPhone. This book shows the reader how to recover sensitive information from the device and perform disaster recovery, and walks the reader through various scenarios for recovering different types of information. With this guide, the reader will be able to effectively recover live, lost, or deleted email, photos, voicemail, Google Maps searches, typing cache, and other sensitive data retained by the iPhone. The reader will learn advanced techniques including data recovery, properly preserving and preparing evidence, and technical techniques such as bypassing basic passcode security or recovering data even after a full restore (by say, a disgruntled employee). Finally, the reader will learn how to properly wipe an iPhone clean of all data for resale or reissue - something Apple’s own restore process fails to do.
You can order the book yourself online here.
July 25th, 2008 - Posted in News | | 0 Comments
First Anti Virus Application for iPhone
A recent article from Hack In The Box talks about the first anti virus application for the iPhone, although technically it resides on an OS X desktop.
The application, called Virus Barrier has been developed by a French company called Intego.
July 21st, 2008 - Posted in Malware | | 0 Comments
Useful iPhone Security Settings and Information
Xeno Kovah has published a little gem of a collection of iPhone security tidbits.
For example, one of the questions is “what is the NMAP output?”.
Nmap output?:
Nothing. The iPhone is not running any services listening on any TCP ports, and silently drops all unrequested packets.
Other questions include Bluetooth capability, Safari options, network fingerprint and other goodies.
Props go out to Xeno!
Read the full thing here: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~xsk/iPhoneSecuritySettings.html.
July 4th, 2008 - Posted in Story | | 0 Comments
iPhone in the Corporate Environment
Builder AU have posted an interesting article titled “The boss’s iPhone: Your worst security nightmare” which talks about the popularity of the iPhone making it a juicy target, and the implications of iPhone’s being used in a corporate environment.
As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst — and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.
You can read the article here: http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/The-boss-s-iPhone-Your-worst-security-nightmare/0,339028227,339284001,00.htm.
July 4th, 2008 - Posted in Story | | 0 Comments
