Apple won’t allow any browsers on iOS devices besides Safari, so Mozilla is working on a legal workaround, an app dubbed “Junior” built on top of WebKit.
Apple won’t allow any browsers on iOS devices besides Safari, so Mozilla is working on a legal workaround, an app dubbed “Junior” built on top of WebKit.
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This time its the turn of the mobile browsing tools in not just iOS, but also Android and the BlackBerry Playbook OS too.
It was only earlier today in which we bought to you the discovery of another security flaw in iOS. This time its the turn of the mobile browsing tools in not just iOS, but also Android and the BlackBerry Playbook OS too. In fact any OS currently utilising the Webkit framework is vulnerable to the flaw.
Security firm CrowdStrike will be revealing the details of the vulnerability at the RSA conference on Wednesday. The issue is that a WebKit exploit could allow the remote execution of code on infected systems, and that infection can come from simply clicking a link on a web page. CrowdStrike claims that it has already managed to adapt some existing Android malware to be delivered in this manner.
To me this sounds like a perfect oppurtunity for one of the many iPhone hackers to get to work on introducing a payload of their own to the iOS devices that we have all come to love, ready for the next update just incase this isn’t patched.
But maybe that’s just me.
This is a proof-of-concept project to show it’s possible to create iPhoneOS Safari plugins. The code structure is pretty much exactly the same as a Safari plugin on the desktop except it uses UIView instead of NSView.
This is a proof-of-concept project to show it’s possible to create iPhoneOS Safari plugins. The code structure is pretty much exactly the same as a Safari plugin on the desktop except it uses UIView instead of NSView.If you build and install this plugin, your browser will report itself Flash capable and show a red dummy view wherever you come across Flash content in any browser using the system WebKit.
You can download the plugin here and you can test it in the Simulator, or you can test it on a jailbroken iDevice. Read more about this and impressions about Flash 10.1 beta on Android Froyo, on Steven Troughton-Smith’s blog …
