[NPMUG] Sophos comments on the worm spreading on "jailbroken" iPhones

[Mark Dalrymple]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Dave Sevick <dave at davesevick.com> wrote:
> Stop press! World's first ever iPhone worm discovered in the wild

The main thing that gets glossed over is this can happen if (and only if):
  * You have jailbroken your iphone
  * You have installed ssh
  * You have not changed the root password

The rest of us who haven't done that (or changed the password if
you've jailbroken and installed ssh) can avoid whatever hysteria the
technical press wants to whip up.

Cheers,
++md


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> A new worm breaks new territory by spreading between jailbroken iPhones in
> Australia. That would normally be news enough - but the Ikee worm also
> changes infected users' wallpaper to a picture of 1980s pop crooner Rick
> Astley!  Learn more about the threat, and how hackers could exploit the
> source code's availability to build more dangerous attacks in future.
> http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/11/08/iphone-worm-discovered
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