iPhone/Privacy.A Worm, Data Hack for Jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches

The second iPhone worm of the week carries with it a lot more risk than the first one. According to Intego Security, this new iPhone worm that is known as iPhone/Privacy.A uses the same hole that ikeeex found a few days ago to change the hacked iPhones’ background image into Rick Astley’s photo. The new [...]

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Jailbroken iPhones RickRoll’d by “ikeeex”

Security company Sophos has found an iPhone virus. Australians owning jailbroken iPhones have found that an unusual worm has infected their smartphones. The hacker’s name is apparently “ike_x” or “ikeeex” (according to his Twitter) and he has found a way to change the background of infected iPhones with a photo of Rick Astley. Here’s Sophos’ official [...]

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Jailbroken iPhone Worm Found [Dangers of Jailbreak]… Rick Astley Photo

Beware users of jailbroken iPhones, it’s an iPhone virus! There is a worm circulating that targets your smartphone. The first infections have been discovered in Australia. The worm only works if your iPhone is jailbroken. The worm is a mobile Rick Roll changing the iPhone background to a photo of Rick Astley. Right now, that’s [...]

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iPhone OS 3.0.1 released to fix SMS Vulnerability

It was just yesterday when the public was made aware of an SMS iPhone vulnerability(a.k.a. iPhone virus), but they guys behind who discovered this loop hole assert that they’ve informed Apple six weeks ago already. Now, after being demonstrated that it is indeed real, Apple has finally responded accordingly and released iPhone OS 3.0.1 to [...]

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SMS iPhone Virus to be Unleashed

The theoretical iPhone virus has just gotten very real. Researchers Charles Miller and Collin Mulliner said the iPhone virus could be sent throught text messages. If your iPhone receives an SMS message with one character, turn off your iPhone immediately. On an infected iPhone, the sender of the virus takes total control remotely and can [...]

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iPhone Dev Team warns about fake iPhone Yellowsnow221 unlock

iPhone jailbreakers out there are probably wondering whether an iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak will be released or not. While we don’t exactly know its progress, the iPhone Dev Team reassures us that they are working on it. As far as unlocks are concerned, that’s on the way too, but they do, however, warn users about [...]

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New Virus for iPhone and iPod Touch

  Bad news for the Apple community. A new virus has emerged which exploits a vulnerability in the Safari browser used by the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The virus infects the browser when you visit a page where the malicious script is embedded. The vulnerability is specific to the Denial of Service in Safari. This [...]

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iPhone’s Got a Virus!

Gizmodo is reporting a possible iPhone virus. A user called it in and Apple support told him in four very scary words that it must’ve been a virus. The user never took a picture. The solution from Apple support seems to have worked and nothing else was seen or heard. A Gizmodo reader is claiming that [...]

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