Can the iPhone5 be hacked remotely by a hacker?

What about these programs.

BTScanner

Bluesnarfer

Bluediving

BTCrack

BLooover

None of these would help someone out to mess things up gain access to an Iphone now would they?

And of course Iphone's security is like fort Knox because Apple wrote all the code. Including the bluetooth protocols?. Right?

Does someone want to tell me I'm wrong and asleep and its just my butt typing????

People used to generally believe that Apple products were immune to virus. They are not. No one was writing virus's for Apple products because there was so few of them out there. Spend all that effort in writing a virus and not get your 15 minutes of fame because it only effected a few people? Times are changing. There is a lot more Apple products out there. The little deviants are working away. The Titanic was unsinkable. How'd that work out?

pbunny3 wrote:

I am astonished by the support peoples responses to iphones being hacked. Are you paid to call people idiots and state iphones cannot be hacked?

power fluctuations caused the browser to open and randomly typed searches of peoples names or existing websites? While sleeping i took pictures and video from baby monitor app? Posted to FB with my butt?

Really?

This is how Apple deals with issues it thinks could give a product a bad name?

There are very few Apple support people on these forums and none in this thread so far. I don't believe anyone has been called an idiot (though that could certainly change at any moment).

Yes, power fluctuations caused by a damaged or defective charger or cable can cause exactly those symptoms. So can a defective digitizer. Given the way iOS software is written, both of these things are more likely explanations than remote hacking. This thread is also not a discussion of all Apple productions. It is a discussion of specifically iOS devices, a system that is quite different than the Mac OS. The likelihood of their being a virus that will affect a non-jailbroken iOS device being so low is not because Apple wrote the software but because of how they wrote it. Either you are unaware of sandboxing or don't understand it. To date, there have been no viruses that affect an un-jailbroken iOS device.

"I don't believe anyone has been called an idiot (though that could certainly change at any moment)."

It appears you just called me an idiot.

And you did not address anything from my posts. Please do tell how its possible for IOS to post and write to a webpage all on its own. And then you can please explain how a power flux from a charger can cause the IOS software to bypass ALL security protocols and dump any and all personal information to random websites??

Your words to answer what caused the "symptoms" of the phone to post to a website while the person was asleep with the phone on the bedside table.

"power fluctuations caused by a damaged or defective charger or cable can cause exactly those symptoms"

I would think this breaking new would have hit all the New stations and papers. Congrats on figuring this all out.

Please explain it in detail how its possible. Because "Either you are unaware of sandboxing or don't understand it."

Assuming the butt, which was asleep at the time stamp of photos and videos being taken did not do the deed. Instead it was the evil power flux which then posted these images from the phone to a website and wrote a blurb about them. I understand sandboxing, do you? How does it relate to this persons experience with their phone? How was the camera accessed. A folder containing media. The media itself. At least two APPs, the baby monitoring app and the browser or Facebook app. The browser or Facebook app are not capable of writing anything on their own. Which points to the operating system itself or someone doing it remotely. If it's not remotely being operated that's one very big sandbox layer you got there. don't ya think? So nice of iOS to place such a big sandbox for all these apps to play together.........not your standard sandboxing. Which kinda points to remote access which would be labeled a virus.

"The likelihood of their being a virus that will affect a non-jailbroken iOS device being so low is not because Apple wrote the software but because of how they wrote it. Either you are unaware of sandboxing or don't understand it. To date, there have been no viruses that affect an un-jailbroken iOS device."

According to whom? No virus of an un-jailbroken iOS device. People like yourself? Who are give information which is burnt at the stake as heresy against iOS? It was a power fluctuation. Your butt did it. or the best one yet "it didnt happen"

I'm really looking forward to learning how the iOS is able post information from my phone to the web on it's own. With written captions no less.

Here are two quotes which should be useful to anyone approaching a troubling mystery. You should have no problem approaching the cases before you with a blank mind. The second quote requires you to accept the truth and not fanatically stand behind the almighty iOS.

"Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations."

Sherlock Holmes

"when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

Sherlock Holmes

"I don't believe anyone has been called an idiot (though that could certainly change at any moment)."

It appears you just called me an idiot.

This is just a matter of subjective interpretation, invited probably by your negative attitude to the advice you got. In my opinion Meg's advice was not pedantic nor negative. So I think you are overreacting. Best is to bypass such feelings by keeping concentrated on solutions instead of thinking conspiracy companies.

Lex

Meg can call me anything she likes. It doesn't harm me in the least. But subjective interpretation? Really. Why bother addressing it. Meg new what she was doing with the original wording in her response. It quite clear. And it doesn't matter.

Anyone want to explain the bad cable theory in detail please? Really looking forward to it. And the whole thing with the operating system posting pictures and writing to websites. REALLY looking forward to the security protocols section.

pbunny3, I have just reread the whole thread: you have nothing presented in terms of finding a solution for the question posted. Just here to spit gall on the world around you. Even you as Sherlock Holmes reader should be aware that this forum here is about users (not Apple) trying to help users with issues. It is time to stop with hacking this thread.

pbunny3 wrote:

Meg can call me anything she likes. It doesn't harm me in the least. But subjective interpretation? Really. Why bother addressing it. Meg new what she was doing with the original wording in her response. It quite clear. And it doesn't matter.

I did not call you anything. It is entirely your interpretation that I did. I just recognize that when people with an attitude such as your show up, it's not long before they either start with the ad hominem attacks on others or imply that such were made against them. The need to of some people to project their own negative interpretations on others is predictable. And, low and behold, I was correct.

I cannot prove there are no viruses that affect non-jailbroken iPhones as proving a negative is a logical impossibility. I challenge you to provide verifiable citations of the existence of such viruses on iOS devices that have not been jailbroken. So far, all you have done is disparage the posts of others. If you can present such evidence, I'm sure we would all be very interested in knowing about it.

LexSchellings wrote:

Better stop it Meg, he came here not with an issue but hacked somebody's thread to display his anger with the rest of the world. Not to help solve it.

Lex

Yes, yes, you're right. I just hope that people who stumble upon this thread from, say a Google search, will note that no evidence of any viruses have been presented. Fear mongering just really galls me.

Sorry for not reponding quickly. I was shopping with my wife. Sail hss a 40% off sale.

i have a constru tion company and us my iphone extensively with regaurd to my business. I found this thread while doing a search on iphone security. I hold alot of company and client info on the cloud and in my phone. Security is very important. This is an Apple owned and run site. People with concerns turn to these forums for help and information.

I have concerns over security. Ive reponded to someones concern and the answer give them. So far everyone has responded with a personal attack on me and who i am. And not answering my question.

Oh yes, your question. Are we allowed to pick just one from your initial foray into these forums?

"I am astonished by the support peoples responses to iphones being hacked. Are you paid to call people idiots and state iphones cannot be hacked?

power fluctuations caused the browser to open and randomly typed searches of peoples names or existing websites? While sleeping i took pictures and video from baby monitor app? Posted to FB with my butt?

Really?

This is how Apple deals with issues it thinks could give a product a bad name?"

I call troll.

LexSchellings wrote:

Don't worry Meg, you are great.

Don't react any more, he is trying to tell everybody how great and important he is. We all know how pathetic he realy is.

Thanks for the support, Lex. I'll be good, I promise. 😉

Just a short read, if you are interested.

These are the names of the fellows that built the virus and installed it on an intact iphone. Not jailbroken.

The research was done at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Billy Lau

Yeongjin Jang

Chengyu Song

Apple iOS devices are considered by many to be more secure than other mobile offerings. In evaluating this belief, we investigated the extent to which security threats were considered when performing everyday activities such as charging a device. The results were alarming: despite the plethora of defense mechanisms in iOS, we successfully injected arbitrary software into current-generation Apple devices running the latest operating system (OS) software. All users are affected, as our approach requires neither a jailbroken device nor user interaction.

In this presentation, we demonstrate how an iOS device can be compromised within one minute of being plugged into a malicious charger. We first examine Apple’s existing security mechanisms to protect against arbitrary software installation, then describe how USB capabilities can be leveraged to bypass these defense mechanisms. To ensure persistence of the resulting infection, we show how an attacker can hide their software in the same way Apple hides its own built-in applications.

LexSchellings wrote:

Meg, i would like to point you to an iphone 3g problem, please look at it:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6843763?answerId=27711252022#27711252022&ac_cid=tw123456#27711252

thanks,

Lex

Will do.

This is the exact same situation with me!!!! I truly do not understand, it is frustrating me so much that I might just switch to android.. Had my iPhone 6 replaced with the same problems again and the same thing is still going on..

Wow, I'm glad to know it's not only us finding this issue. I will try to abbreviate as it's a long involved story.

We discovered my daughter's Facebook and Instagram was being hacked by her boyfriend. He became an ex immediately for this and many other reasons. In the aftermath of that she blocked him on her new, non-jailbroke iPhone 5. A short time later he suddenly started imessaging her again. When she went to her blocked list, he was unblocked and several of her friends were blocked. She changed it all and within a short time it happened again. Then she started to notice a few other strange happenings on her phone..such as her email address getting changed. Then he mistakenly referred to some texts that she had sent to her friends regarding all that was happening. Initially when it was just Facebook, Instagram and the texting we assumed that he had downloaded a key logger on her phone. But when things were getting changed remotely.....

I should say that while this was happening she was visiting at home with us and the ex was in a city two hours from us.

I called our service provider hoping they could help give us some direction on the best way to figure this all out and reset the phone and get rid of the key logger. While I was talking to them and was logged into her Apple ID online and looking at Find My Iphone, another iphone 5 kept popping online under her account. The next time it did it I clicked Lost Iphone and waited. A short time later I got an email from Apple giving me an address of that phone. It ended up being the ex-boyfriends address in a city 2 hours from where we were. I also clicked erase iPhone the next time it came online.

Scary stuff! We took the phone to an Apple store and they showed me how to reset to factory to remove the key logger. We hope! We also changed to password to that apple ID and created a brand new for her to use that he knows nothing about. We hope! We also had to change all her passwords for everything in her phone and her iPad and did a factory reset on her iPad just in case he had that one done also.

Nobody will ever convince me that iPhones cannot be hacked! I have seen it with my own eyes! There are some seriously psychotic people in this world!