It was only a matter of time before someone crafted an iPhone virus, or at least some form of malware attacking Apple’s handset. And now they have. To give it its proper name, it’s a “memory exhaustion remote denial of service vulnerability”, which is basically 19 lines of JavaScript that when coded into a website, crashes your iPhone.
Bummer, eh? While annoying, there are more serious implications - in theory, this hole could be used to do nasty stuff to your iPhone. In practice, that isn’t happening, and making a virus that’d actually do it is a different challenge entirely. It seems the exploit is present in the latest iPhone firmware, 1.1.3, despite having been discovered in the previous version.
For now, if you’re really worried about the bug, you can disable JavaScript in Safari on the iPhone.
(via Reg Hardware)
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