Apple Responds To Pod2g's SMS Spoofing Claim

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Apple has responded in reply to the recent post from pod2g on his blog where he mentioned that he had found a vulnerability in iOS which allows spoofing the SMS text message origin. He also wrote Apple please fix before final release of iOS 6. Apple has responded to his claim and tells its users to be careful while receiving the SMS especially if they are redirected to any suspected address or website over SMS. Also they prefer to use the imessage since it verifies the addresses against these kind of spoofing attacks.

Pod2g’s SMS Spoofing Claim

I have given below both statements so that you can understand the severity of the SMS flaw that I think may affect some of us.

pod2g wrote on his iOS blog:

I mentioned it on twitter a few days ago, I found a flaw in iOS that I consider to be severe, while it does not involve code execution. I am pretty confident that other security researchers already know about this hole, and I fear some pirates as well.

The flaw exists since the beginning of the implementation of SMS in the iPhone, and is still there in iOS 6 beta 4. Apple: please fix before the final release.

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 Apple Responds To Pod2g’s SMS Spoofing Claim