Security researcher Charlie Miller and Vincenzo Iozzo, a student at the University of Milan, recently discovered a repeatable method to trick the iPhone’s processor to run unsigned code. The pair now plan reveal their work at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas next month.

There have been very few exploits for the iPhone thus far, since the iPhone’s security system generally prevents running arbitrary code. However, Miller and Iozzo discovered a method to enable a working shell, which could let a hacker do virtually anything within the system, including copying private data. Their method, combined with an iPhone OS exploit, has the potential to allow hackers to run virtually any code they want on the device. We talked to Miller to get some more details about how this is possible.

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