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November 13, 2009, 7:58PM
Android, iPhone Susceptible to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Security researchers from SMobile Systems have released a paper detailing successful man-in-the-middle attacks against several smartphones. The SSL enabled log in sessions on the tested, Nokia N95, HTC Tilt, Android G1 and iPhone 3GS devices was sniffed using the publicly available SSLstrip tool, with the attack taking place over insecure Wi-Fi network, now prevalent literally everywhere. Read the full article. [ZDNet.com]
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