Are you kidding me? Everyone knows that Apple products are nearly impossible to hack or even allow viruses. This is another internet sensation that started when security experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner exposed that the Apple iPhone could be vulnerable to a virus just by sending text messages. It all started from a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

Let me be the first to say that I think you and your iPhone will be just fine. There is a security vulnerability and it has been exposed but there is no virus that is actually built to take advantage of those vulnerability….see what we mean. So what are these programmable hacks that are possible on the iPhone? Let’s run them down.

First, the area that has the vulnerability (said that word a couple times already) involves text messaging or SMS as they call it. The hack can work by the ability to send programmable code via text message that can crash your iphone OS. If you wanted to know if you have been sent this code through text message, you will see a single square character. If you see something like this before the hole is closed by Apple, then shut off your phone immediately before the code runs.

The code that can run from your text message can potentially do just about anything. It can use our camera while you don’t know it, go through your address book, messages, make calls, and just about anything else. The important thing to know is that there is no immediate threat to your iPhone’s vulnerability just yet. This whole thing got started by a couple hackers presenting how they did it at a conference. So don’t be screening my text messages ok….