Recently, a Colorado Technical University Professor showed the Defcon attendees, how an iPod Touch can be converted into a portable and stealthy penetration testing or attack tool.
“Because of its size and ability to connect back to a more robust attack platform, the iPod Touch can go anywhere and get us [penetration testers] into areas where we couldn’t before,” Wilhelm says. “If I walked into a bank with a laptop, people would be suspicious. If I were to walk in with something like an iPhone, people would accept it. I could hack for hours in a bank or coffee shop, and no one would [suspect],” he says.
Though, it not as easy it sounds but certainly, in extreme scenarios, new generation phones (especially, apple brands because of Unix based OS and networking capabilities) can be used to exploit the networks.
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