Apple iPhone flaw lets hackers take over, security firm says

Miller, a former employee of the National Security Agency who has a doctorate in computer science, demonstrated the hack to a reporter by using his iPhone’s Web browser to visit a Web site of his own design. Once he was there, the site injected a bit of code into the iPhone that then took over the phone. The phone promptly followed instructions to transmit a set of files to the attacking computer that included recent text messages–including one that had been sent to the reporter’s cell phone moments before–as well as telephone contacts and e-mail addresses.