Smartphones are vaunted for their ease of use. But that’s precisely why they can be so vulnerable to hacking software, as Micro Systemation’s XRY showed last us last Wednesday.
The iPhone’s default security passcode is a mere 4 digits. Four digits is incredibly weak – there are just 10,000 different combinations to try, which is nothing for a piece of software.
Back in the 1980s, teenage phone phreakers of um, my acquaintance, hacked MCI and Sprint access codes in....