Smartone-Vodafone HSDPA Network Test Results

As most readers know I conducted a joint test of Smartone-Vodafone’s HSDPA network last week; which I now found out it cost me HKD60.00 in data charges, as I had detailed in my post, Smartone-Vodafone HSDPA Network Speed Tested.

At the time Smartone-Vodafone technicians did not have the data correlated until today.
SMV Network Test with SpeedTest
These results are from running the SpeedTest iPhone application on each of the iPhones used in the test.

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Apple Fixes SMS Security Vulnerability on iPhone

Apple Blue LogoOn Thursday at the Black Hack conference in Las Vegas the security researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, demonstrated a SMS security vulnerability that exists in the iPhone, Android based mobile phones, and Windows Mobile phones.

The attack involves simply receiving a series of malformed SMS from a hacker, just receiving these SMS will cause the targeted mobile phone to either crash or worst taken over by the attacker. The latter is possible with the iPhone.

When the attacker takes over the iPhone they can make calls, visit web sites, turn on the camera and most of all forward the SMS to people in the iPhone’s Contact list.

The security researchers informed Apple, Google and Microsoft of the vulnerability about a month ago. At that time, they told these companies that the SMS security vulnerability will be the topic of their speech at the Back Hack conference in Las Vegas. After Google was informed they released a fix to Android. The researchers did not hear from Apple.

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Apple Fixes SMS Security Vulnerability on iPhone

Apple Blue LogoOn Thursday at the Black Hack conference in Las Vegas the security researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, demonstrated a SMS security vulnerability that exists in the iPhone, Android based mobile phones, and Windows Mobile phones.
The attack involves simply receiving a series of malformed SMS from a hacker, just receiving these SMS will cause the targeted mobile phone to either crash or worst taken over by the attacker. The latter is possible with the iPhone.

When the attacker takes over the iPhone they can make calls, visit web sites, turn on the camera and most of all forward the SMS to people in the iPhone’s Contact list.

The security researchers informed Apple, Google and Microsoft of the vulnerability about a month ago. At that time, they told these companies that the SMS security vulnerability will be the topic of their speech at the Back Hack conference in Las Vegas. After Google was informed they released a fix to Android. The researchers did not hear from Apple.

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iPhone Hacked in Hong Kong on Smartone-Vodafone

Many of you know that I was in North America this past two weeks and was also in New York City.

While at NYC I spent some time at the 5th Ave. Apple Store gaining some hands on experience with the iPhone. This was the first time I saw the iPhone in person and played with its applications and Multitouch interface. I will talk more about this in a separate post.

Getting back to the topic in question. While in NYC last week much had transpired regarding the unlocking (release of the lock down of the iPhone to the AT&T carrier). End of last month iPhone SIM Free announced that they had a software to unlock the iPhone from AT&T iron fist. They said that they will be selling the software on a per user (iPhone) license within a few days. Weeks had past and no announcements. Continue reading “iPhone Hacked in Hong Kong on Smartone-Vodafone”