{"id":13860,"date":"2014-08-14T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13860"},"modified":"2014-08-14T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:56:12","slug":"the-biggest-iphone-security-risk-could-be-connecting-one-to-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13860","title":{"rendered":"The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apple issues developer certificates to those who want to do internal distributions of their own applications. Those certificates can be used to self-sign an application and provision it.<\/p>\n<p>Wang&#8217;s team found they could sneak a developer provisioning file onto an iOS device when it was connected via USB to a computer. A victim doesn&#8217;t see a warning.<\/p>\n<p>That would allow for a self-signed malicious application to be installed. Legitimate applications could also be removed and substituted for look-alike malicious ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/article\/552416\/biggest_iphone_security_risk_could_connecting_one_computer\/\">The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer &#8211; Computerworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple issues developer certificates to those who want to do internal distributions of their own applications. Those certificates can be used to self-sign an application and provision it. Wang&#8217;s team found they could sneak a developer provisioning file onto an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[1125,516,347,698],"class_list":["post-13860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpe","tag-exploit-vector","tag-ios","tag-malware","tag-security-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13861,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions\/13861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}