iPhone - hackers target

There are so many things one can do with the iPhone. You can surf the web, read your email, send text messages, etc etc. Unfortunately, all these things make the iPhone a perfect candidate for a mobile virus.

There are hundreds of mobile phone viruses out there and these can be spread through Internet downloads, MMS attachments, and Bluetooth. Security experts have warned that phones running Symbian, Windows and Palm software are the most vulnerable, but as soon as the iPhone hit the market, it became a new target for hackers.

A team of security researchers at Independent Security Evaluators lead by Charlie Miller discovered a vulnerability in Safari that allowed them to take control of the iPhone two weeks after its release. According to Exploiting the iPhone, a web page containing malicious code accessed through Safari is what ultimately compromised the iPhone. Apple was notified of the vulnerability, and has offered several patches since then via iPhone software updates.
Does this mean your iPhone is now safe? Not really. Hackers will continue to look for vulnerabilities, so you should protect your iPhone the same way you would protect your computer at home.

So be on guard for your iphone is too precious to lose

information Security

info sec- a brief intro. this is a snapshot of what my last semester subject was about
Information security is the ongoing process of exercising due care and due diligence to protect information, and information systems, from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, destruction, modification, or disruption or distribution. The never ending process of information security involves ongoing training, assessment, protection, monitoring & detection, incident response & repair, documentation, and review.

Ways to secure data

Confidentiality- symmetric key encryption
authentication- asymmetric key encryption
integrity- hashing

Pirates of Silicon valley

I just watched the movie "pirates of silicon valley". A lovely movie that traced steve jobs and bill gates's history. and it did portray steve in the better light, with bill gates literally being portrayed as the big brother.
Bill was a genius. everyone forgets that.. even if he had passed some else's software as his own, he saw to it that it worked the way it has to. But steve was an artist. and great artists steal.
no one ever sees Bill as a philanthropist. or atleast very rarely. He spends his fortune on good causes with the same fervor he spends acquiring it. what abt steve? I havent heard much of his philanthropic nature, nor heard him speak a word for nature (except ofcourse the Apple)
Maybe Steve gets the adulation for all the stuff he pioneered, but thats just half the cake. In this world, everyone sees only the cream of the cake, and never below it. To be frank, his credits are also based on stolen stuff. stolen from Xerox. and he has no right to accuse Bill of theft.
a very beautiful link i found that says more abt this is here. It gives an almost unbiased description of bill vs steve. read and ensoi