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First iPhone Worm Discovered, Rickrolls Jailbroken Phones
Unexpof writes "Users of jailbroken iPhones in Australia are reporting that their wallpapers have been changed by a worm to an image of '80s pop icon Rick Astley. This is the first time a worm has been reported in the wild for the Apple iPhone. According to a report by Sophos, the worm, which exploits users who have installed SSH and not changed the default password, hunts for other vulnerable iPhones and infects them. Users are advised to properly secure their jailbroken iPhones with a non-default password, and Sophos says the worm is not harmless, despite its graffiti-like payload: 'Accessing someone else's computing device and changing their data without permission is an offense in many countries — and just as with graffiti there is a cost involved in cleaning-up affected iPhones. ... Other inquisitive hackers may also be tempted to experiment once they read about the world's first iPhone worm. Furthermore, a more malicious hacker could take the code written by ikee and adapt it to have a more sinister payload.'"
In the mean time Apple has cut a very handsome check for ikee's services in proving jailbroken phones to be bad bad bad : )
and the iPhone getting rickroll'd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw&feature=player_embedded#
I thought SSH was created to add more safety. ;-)
New things are always on the horizon
As a response to this, T-Mobile is now in the progress of installing firewall software so phones on their network can't communicate with each other, making similiar hacks in the future a lot more difficult.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
And for you, sir, version 2 -
It looks for any flashlight app on your system and then when you try to run it, the phone plays "You light up my life".
Download it now. Be the first on your block.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Egad!! Don't you "Get-off-my-lawn"-types get it?
NOTHING IS WORSE THAN GETTING RICKROLL'D!!