The day after the iPhone’s June 29, 2007 launch, Aviel D. Rubin, computer security expert and professor emeritus of computer science, issued a challenge to researchers at his company, Independent Security Evaluators: Try to hack the device, and he’d buy them all iPhones. His goal? Uncover vulnerabilities and help Apple fix them.
Just two weeks later, they did it—extracting data files and transmitting them to an attacking computer, making them the first to hack the iPhone.
Excerpted from JHU Engineering >>