iPhone Security Analysis

iPhone Security Analysis

The release of Apple’s iPhone was one of the most intensively publicized product releases in the history of mobile devices. While the iPhone wowed users with its exciting design and features, it also angered many for not allowing installation of third party applications and for working exclusively with AT & T wireless services (in the US). Besides the US, iPhone was only sold only in a few othe...

Security Evaluation of Apple’s iPhone

Executive Summary The Apple iPhone was released to much fanfare on June 29, 2007. Because of the large amount of personal information stored on these mobile devices, we decided to conduct a security analysis of the iPhone. The iPhone's applications for surfing the web and checking emails are potentially at risk to remote attacks. We wanted to determine exactly how well the software on the iPhon...

Book Review: iPhone and iOS Forensics: Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Apple iPhone, iPad and iOS Devices

Book Review: iPhone and iOS Forensic: Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Apple iPhone, iPad and iOS Devices

An Analysis of the iKee.B iPhone Botnet

We present an analysis of the iKee.B (duh) Apple iPhone bot client, captured on November 25, 2009. The bot client was released throughout several countries in Europe, with the initial purpose of coordinating its infected iPhones via a Lithuanian botnet server. This report details the logic and function of iKee’s scripts, its configuration files, and its two binary executables, which we have rev...