Security breach can force your Apple iPhone to make costly phone calls

Andrei Neculaesei, a developer from Copenhagen company Airtame, has discovered a security breach that can have your Apple iPhone dialing expensive phone numbers at your expense, without your permission or even knowledge. The security breach can be designed so that every time you visit a certain website, your iPhone is reaching into your wallet, making a very expensive call.



When you click on a phone number from a link in iOS, you are asked if you want to make the call, right? So how could these expensive calls take place under your nose. Well, the truth is that if you go to a native mobile ...