New I-Phone 4

[Gelsons Dad]

The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.

"What's clear is that if you have jail-broken your iPhone or iPod Touch, and installed SSH, then you must always change your root user password to something different than the default, 'alpine'," wrote Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos.

"In fact, it would be a good idea if you didn't use a dictionary word at all."

After a phone becomes infected it disables the SSH service, preventing reinfection.

The code contains numerous comments from Mr Towns about his motivation.


Jail breaking allows a user to run non-Apple approved software
One comment reads: "People are stupid and this is to prove it."

Interesting article this week about smartphones
It was all about the viruses they have been subjected to, particularly through apps
Oddly enough the only phones that had been attacked were Android phones and jail broken iPhones

I'll just leave this here:

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[.allan]

Send it back and get a decent phone that is not restricted by apple bullsh*t.

 

[manchester blue]

Get the HTC sensation. Dual core processor. The bollox!!

This. Makes the iPhone look outdated as well. Great kit.

 

[squirtyflower]

Interesting article this week about smartphones
It was all about the viruses they have been subjected to, particularly through apps
Oddly enough the only phones that had been attacked were Android phones and jail broken iPhones

I'll just leave this here:

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Backs up what was on the BBC this week
Jail broken phones attacked

Then again conspirinistas may think Apple themselves did it

 

[Lucky13]

I thought the iphone had a dab radio built-in? , if not like others i use Tunein Radio for my HTC.

 

[Skashion]

Lolz at the people who think only jailbroken iPhones can be attacked. The iPhone receives an annual ass raping at Pwn2Own and the vulnerability which allowed the exploit to work this year is still unpatched in the latest version of iOS.

 

[BulgarianPride]

Lolz at the people who think only jailbroken iPhones can be attacked. The iPhone receives an annual ass raping at Pwn2Own and the vulnerability which allowed the exploit to work this year is still unpatched in the latest version of iOS.

LOL. Miller must really hate apple.

Charles Miller is a computer security researcher with the consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators. Prior to his current employment, he spent five years working for the National Security Agency. Miller demonstrated his hacks publicly on products manufactured by Apple. In 2008 he won a $10,000 cash prize at the hacker conference Pwn2Own in Vancouver Canada for being the first to find a critical bug in the ultrathin MacBook Air—deploying an exploit in 2 minutes. The next year, he won $5,000 for cracking Safari in under 10 seconds. In 2009 he also demonstrated an SMS processing vulnerability that allowed for complete compromise of the Apple iPhone and denial-of-service attacks on other phones. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.

 

[Skashion]

LOL. Miller must really hate apple.

Charles Miller is a computer security researcher with the consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators. Prior to his current employment, he spent five years working for the National Security Agency. Miller demonstrated his hacks publicly on products manufactured by Apple. In 2008 he won a $10,000 cash prize at the hacker conference Pwn2Own in Vancouver Canada for being the first to find a critical bug in the ultrathin MacBook Air—deploying an exploit in 2 minutes. The next year, he won $5,000 for cracking Safari in under 10 seconds. In 2009 he also demonstrated an SMS processing vulnerability that allowed for complete compromise of the Apple iPhone and denial-of-service attacks on other phones. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.

He doesn't, he likes Apple products at least, but likes to underline the point that there's no such thing as an invulnerable OS as he's proven time and time again.

 

[allan harper]

I like the the IPhone 4, by far the best phone I've had although tapafuckingtalk doesn't half do my head in at times.

 

[quiet_riot]

Interesting article this week about smartphones
It was all about the viruses they have been subjected to, particularly through apps
Oddly enough the only phones that had been attacked were Android phones and jail broken iPhones

I'll just leave this here:

<a class="postlink" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8349905.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8349905.stm</a>

Rick Rolling on an EPIC scale!