Surfing to the wrong Web page or opening the wrong PDF file on your iPhone could allow hackers to take over the device, Germany's information security agency said. In a report released Thursday (available in German here), Germany's Federal Office for Information Security warned about a critical vulnerability in the way iOS devices (the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) deal with PDF files. A hacker exploiting that weakness, the report said, would be able to gain access to a users' "confidential information" including passwords, email, and bank data...[continued]
