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Saturday
Aug012009

Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS Security Flaw Patch

A security vulnerability has been fixed by Apple to close the a Security Flaw on your iPhone.

Security experts explained Thursday at the Black Hat security conference that a series of hundreds of invisible SMS (short message service) text messages could be used to embed code into the system's memory and run a malicious executable file.

Users would only notice a single message with a small square in it.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/01/BUME192BCE.DTL#ixzz0MvYKhrVX

To run the update on your iPhone, open iTunes, click on Help and Run Updates…

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