iPhone Hacked in 20 Seconds at Pwn2Own
Two European researchers have successfully hacked a fully patched iPhone and exfiltrated the device's entire SMS database in 20 seconds.
ZDNet reports that Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann exploited a previously unknown vulnerability and had the target iPhone visit a Web Site containing malicious code. It took Weinmann, a 32-year-old from the University of Luxembourg, collaborated and Iozzo, a 22-year-old Italian researcher from Zynamic, to find the vulnerability and write the exploit. Once they put everything in place, the hack took just 20 seconds.
"Basically, every page that the user visits on our [rigged] site will grab the SMS database and upload it to a server we control," Weinmann said, according to ZDNet.
Weinmann went on to say that in addition taking the SMS database, the exploit could have taken the phone's contact list (for both phone and email), photographs and iTunes files.
ZDNet cites Weinmann as saying there’s a non-root user called ‘mobile’ with certain user privileges in the iPhone Sandbox. "With this exploit, I can do anything that ‘mobile’ can do," he said.
Weinmann and Iozzo won $15,000 and got to keep the iPhone.

Security by obscurity.
Microsoft has absolutely nothing to do with people successfully manipulating an iPhone - it is completely irrelevant. Go troll elsewhere.
Its just as he says.. every OS is made by man.. thus another man can find a flaw and exploit it. Thats just life.. But just like everything else if you build it well enough the cracks will be much harder to notice..
Security by obscurity.
Microsoft has absolutely nothing to do with people successfully manipulating an iPhone - it is completely irrelevant. Go troll elsewhere.
Its just as he says.. every OS is made by man.. thus another man can find a flaw and exploit it. Thats just life.. But just like everything else if you build it well enough the cracks will be much harder to notice..
there are some hack that need brute force computational power, this one is a simple drive by ordeal.... imagine visiting a website on your iPhone and having the contents copied
step two, click yes to allow ((((hacking of my device)))
step three, claim ZOMG!! I've Been HACKED!!
Please limit yourself to tech-related trolling while on Tom's.
/sarcasm
So why the iPhone is locked again?!