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Backdoor Malware Targets Apple iPad
An anonymous reader writes "Apple iPad users are being warned of an email-borne threat which could give hackers unauthorised access to the device. The threat arrives via an unsolicited email urging the recipient to download the latest version of iTunes as a prelude to updating their iPad software. Apart from opening up a backdoor, it also tries to read the keys and serial numbers of the software installed on the device, and logs the passwords to any webmail, IM or protected storage accounts."
Call me an idiot if you want. But I am an iPhone/iPod developer. Last year I made over $300K on my apps, and last month I made over $125K on JUST iPad versions of my apps.
If buying an iPad so I can write software for it that I can sell it to other "idiots" makes me an idiot, then I'm being an "idiot" all the way to the bank.
What do you do for a living?
Yep, and it works great.
This infection is a windows virus that runs on the windows machine, then tries to identify information being sent from the windows machine to the iPad, disguised as an iTunes update. It's a classic man-in-the-middle attack.
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