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Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:02 pm ]
Post subject:  New iPhone worm
There's a new greater threat out there.
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Author:  LaptopAcidXperience [ Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New iPhone worm
Anyone suspicious that these worms are only hitting jail broken phones, although it makes complete sense only these phones are being targeted as a result of the hacking process.

I'm not, apple simply couldn't risk being implicated in such a thing.
Author:  big_D [ Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New iPhone worm
Yeah, I saw the report on that on Cnet last week... It is just a further implementation of the one a couple of weeks ago about charging €5 to secure jailbroken iPhones still using the default passwords...

Somebody has taken the code and gone a step further... If you are dumb enough to jailbreak an iPhone without knowing what you are actually doing, you deserve what you get.
Author:  james016 [ Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New iPhone worm
LaptopAcidXperience wrote:
Anyone suspicious that these worms are only hitting jail broken phones, although it makes complete sense only these phones are being targeted as a result of the hacking process.

I'm not, apple simply couldn't risk being implicated in such a thing.


Nope as it is only affecting phones that have SSH installed (a manual process not done by jailbreaking) and the owners not changing their passwords.
Author:  timark_uk [ Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New iPhone worm
Me and a couple of mates were just discussing this here in work, and came to the same conclusion :
big_D wrote:
If you are dumb enough to jailbreak an iPhone without knowing what you are actually doing, you deserve what you get.
+3

Mark
Author:  big_D [ Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New iPhone worm
james016 wrote:
LaptopAcidXperience wrote:
Anyone suspicious that these worms are only hitting jail broken phones, although it makes complete sense only these phones are being targeted as a result of the hacking process.

I'm not, apple simply couldn't risk being implicated in such a thing.


Nope as it is only affecting phones that have SSH installed (a manual process not done by jailbreaking) and the owners not changing their passwords.

One of the key steps for jailbreaking an iPhone is installing/activating SSH. It isn't necessary to keep it running afterwards, but considering most people who jailbreak their iPhones don't have a clue what SSH is... :?

Life Hacker.com wrote:
he hard-working iPhone Dev Team released the jailbreak utility PwnageTool ... Once you've installed OpenSSH, here's how to use it from your
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