Apple says it's fixed iPhone SMS vulnerability

Apple Inc. says it has fixed an iPhone vulnerability that lets hackers knock people offline — and possibly take over the phones — by sending them specially crafted text messages.

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First of all, yes, everyone on Twitter now should have access to the new Retweet functionality. Currently, only Twitter.com and a handful of clients support the new mechanism. But did you know that you can also trigger the new Retweets via SMS?

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Study claims E-mail to die out by 2020 thanks to Texting, IM, and Social Networking Sites. What do you think?

I’ve come across 13 stories in as many hours on the upcoming demise of e-mail over the next ten years at the hands of social networking sites, texting and instant messaging.

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OXFORD, England — Inside the imposing British Crown Court here, Phillipa Curtis, 22, and her parents cried as she was remanded for 21 months to a high-security women's prison, for killing someone much like herself.

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THE operators of a mobile phone text scam that preyed on the desperate and dateless were slammed with $15.8 million in fines for breaching anti-spam laws in Queensland's Federal Court.

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Distracted Driving Poll: Should texting while driving be against the law?

Two good pro and con articles from US News & world Report:

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MANILA - LAWMAKERS are targeting a tax on text messages to raise sorely needed revenue for the government - a move that is predictably rankling consumers in the Philippines, the texting capital of the world.

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Text from the BBC article by Jonathan Fildes, BBC's technology journalist. Any attempt to rig or interfere with Afghanistan's election could be caught out by a system that allows anyone to record incidents via text message.

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Have you been hearing all the chatter about Google Voice but still haven't caught up on what it is? Ars gives you the rundown on Google's calling service and how you can use it to screen and forward calls, send free SMSs, and even get your voicemails transcribed and sent to your  …

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BEIJING - MOBILE phone users in central China could face jail for sending unwanted erotic text messages while in the north, one local Communist Party branch has held 480 meetings on the problem in the past month.

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Apple on Friday fixed an SMS-related security flaw in the iPhone that had been at the center of one of the most talked-about exploits at this week's Black Hat security conference.

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Researchers have discovered a way to take complete control over an iPhone merely by sending special SMS messages and demonstrated it on my iPhone at the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday.

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Found this to be a succinct intro to SMS short code messaging.

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Presenting at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Miller explains that while he has agreed with Apple to avoid details -- at least until the next Black Hat USA meeting -- he can say that the vulnerability might allow a hacker to run exploits on a remote phone, using code sent thr …

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A mobile-phone service has been set up in Uganda to give people weather forecasts, farming advice and health information through text messages.

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The communications regulator has sounded the alarm after receiving a number of complaints from Australians who received SMS messages containing death threats.

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SENDING a text message encouraging someone to commit a racial attack could become a federal offence under laws being considered by the Rudd Government in its response to violence against Indian students.

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Media across the globe have been focusing on a "Twitter Revolution" in Iran as hundreds of thousands of street protestors purportedly mobilized their demonstrations using the microblogging service.

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Like most things, the best text messages happen late at night. There is something distinctive about a nocturnal text - exposing, intimate, revelatory, sometimes plain drunken.

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When President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world from Cairo this week, more than 20,000 people outside the U.S. received free text messages about his speech.

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THE Federal Court has granted interim orders against three companies over allegations of setting up false dating profiles and SMS spamming.

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THE communications and media watchdog has approved measures to protect consumers from being slugged with high charges from premium SMS services.

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A few years ago I attended - for professional purposes only - a literary speed-dating evening at the State Library of Victoria.

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Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.

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Health-care professionals in Arizona are creating an asthma-alert system using popular social-networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

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Twitter site received 20million hits in March, almost double since the prior report, presumably the month before (see the chart in link.) These are hits to the site itself and actual usage is much greater due to tweets and interaction from blackberry, mobile, and other web-based …

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