Flawed: Security Firm Says iPhone Problem Lets Hackers Take Over

CNET:

A team of computer security consultants say they have found a flaw in Apple's wildly popular iPhone that allows them to take control of the device.

The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients' computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control of iPhones through a Wi-Fi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.

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