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PWN2OWN: iPhone 3Gs Hacked Minutes After The Event Started

Security researchers Vincenzo Iozzo from Zynamics GmbH and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann from the University of Luxembourg today won the “iPhone” section of the renowned PWN2OWN contest in Vancouver, Canada. The demonstrated attack code steals the SMS database from the phone, albeit other attack payloads are easily possible.