iPhone 2.0.2 defense Flaw puts your info at risk

Your private knowledge may be at risk on your iPhone now that the 2.0.2 update has made the rounds. Why is that the case? Quite simply, anyone can break into your phone and access your private info including Contacts, Safari, Mail and SMS even whether you have a password set.

The following was posted on Gizmodo and will explain what the problem looks like and how to avoid it until Apple comes up with a fix for that bug. 

First, password protect your phone and lock it. thereupon slide to unlock and do that:

1. Tap emergency shout.
2. Double tap the home button.

Done. You are now in your favorites. that seems like a feature, considering you may want to have emergency number in your favorites for quick dial. The safety measure problem here is double. The first: anyone picking up your phone can manufacture a shout to anyone in your favorites. On top of that, that plus opens access to your full Address Book, the dial keypad, and your voice mail.

If that wasn't poor ample, the second one is even worse: whether you tap on the blue arrows next to the names, it will give you full access to the private data in a favorite entry.

And it goes downhill from there:

• whether you visit in a mail address, it will give you full access to the Mail application. All your mail will be exposed.
• whether there's a URL in your contact (or in a mail message) you can visit on it and have full access to Safari.
• whether you visit on send text letter in a contact, it will give you full access to all your SMS.

Hopefully, that major protection break that fully exposes your most private info will be solved as soon as possible. Until soon after, you can avoid any potential breach doing the following:

1. In the iPhone home, go to Settings.
2. go on General.
3. go on Home Button.
4. go on either "Home" or "iPod".

This way, the double-click on the home button will take the user back to the unlock screen (if you use "Home") or the iPod screen. I recommend using Home. You will lose the ability to quickly access your favorites for a quick call—which is one of my favorite features—but that's better than having all your private mails, contacts, and SMS database compromised.

[via Gizmodo]

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