First iPhone worm features Rick Astley


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First iPhone worm features Rick Astley

The worm only affects jailbroken iPhones.

A week ago it was manual attacks on jailbroken iPhones, now a worm, which penetrates the phone and spreads using open SSH connections, is circulating in the wild. Because all iPhones have the same password for the 'root' and 'mobile' user accounts, installing an SSH server and failing to change these passwords after jailbreaking an iPhone leaves the device wide open, allowing anyone to gain remote administrator access.

Details at Heise security - http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item...ley-854085.html

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