iPhone Hacking
Hacking the iPhone has long been considered a rarified endeavor , undertaken by sophisticated nation states against only their most high-value targets. But a discovery by a group of Google researchers has turned that notion on its head: For two years, someone has been using a rich collection of iPhone vulnerabilities with anything but restraint or careful targeting. Instead, they've indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones just by getting them to visit a website. On Thursday evening, Google's Project Zero security research team revealed a broad campaign of iPhone hacking . A handful of websites in the wild had assembled five so-called exploit chains, tools that link together security vulnerabilities, allowing a hacker to penetrate each layer of iOS's digital protections. The rare and intricate chains of code exploited a total of 14 security flaws, targeting everything from the browser's "sandbox" isolation mechanism to the core of the operatin...