revolutionary voice activated personal assistant feature, hackers have been in love with it.
. Folks at Applidium have now announced that they’ve hacked Siri’s security protocol.
in the App Store, which was later
.
Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! Or use Siri on an iPad! (more…)

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The security protocol that enables Siri to communicate with Apple ‘s servers and return information via speech recognition has been cracked by developer Applidium.

What does that mean?

In a nutshell, according to Applidium, “anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri!” The technology that Siri uses to communicate with Apple servers is not HTTP, as many developers may suspect. (more…)

Security researcher and a former National Security Agency analyst – Charlie Miller has revealed that he has found a major security vulnerability in iOS that could allow malicious code to be executed on the iOS device, which could be used by the attacker to steal the user’s photos, read contacts, make the phone vibrate or play sounds etc.
Miller became suspicious of a possible flaw in the code signing of Apple ’s mobile devices with the release (more…)

Apple has just released iOS 5.0.1 (build number 9A405).
iOS 5.0.1 is available for 
, 
, 
, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPod Touch 3rd generation, 
.
According to release notes iOS 5.0.1 includes the following the bug fixes and improvements:
iOS 5.0.1 also fixes the 
 that was discovered in iOS 5. As we had reported a short while back, initial reports by developers who tested iOS 5.0.1 also indicate that
.
It is currently (more…)

prototypes in the past two years. The news was first reported by
, which has since been independently confirmed by
.
John was a special agent for the FBI for 26 years, after which he served at Pfizer for 11 years and finally joined Apple in 2007.
At first it may seem that his retirement decision was voluntary, but according to
forced John to retire.
During his tenure as the VP of Global Security, John oversaw Apple ‘s efforts to thwart counterfeit devices (more…)

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then you should read this post.
have discovered a security flaw, which can allow anyone to gain unauthorized access to your iPad 2 with Smart Cover in iOS 5. The security flaw allows someone to gain acces to iPad 2 even if you’ve passcode protected it.
As you can see in our video below, a Smart Cover can essentially unlock an iPad 2. The person who unlocks your iPad 2 will not have complete access to your iPad, but will be able to gain entrance (more…)

Lookout Mobile Security revealed a free app for the iPhone and iPad today, porting some of its security tools from Android in its first moves to attract customers of Apple ‘s mobile operating system.

Lookout for iOS (download) brings some mobile-specific security enhancements, such as a System Advisor, Contacts Backup, and Missing Device tools, but it lacks a scan for malicious apps and other traditional app or program-based (more…)

Last week, we had reported that  
in the chat message window, which allows an attacker to run malicious javascript code that can enable the attacker to get information, including a user’s address book from the victim’s iOS device.
It looks like Skype has fixed the security vulnerability in the major update it rolled out yesterday.
Skype has just released a new update to fix the syncing issues that plagued yesterday’s update, in which we (more…)

If you use Skype’s app on your iOS devices then continue to read this article.
have a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Chat message window, which allows an attacker to run malicious javascript code that can enable the attacker to get information, including a user’s address book from the victim’s iOS device.
Executing arbitrary Javascript code is one thing, but I found that Skype also improperly defines the URI scheme used by the built-in (more…)