Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
November 20th, 2010 | Author: admin
Intego spotted another piece of malware that attacks iPhones. Intego identifies and named the malware iPhone/Privacy.A, takes advantage of the same vulnerability in the iPhone as the ikee worm. We need to clarify that all these worms/hacks/malware can infect only those jailbroken iPhone whose SSH was turned on with the default root: alpine configuration. That doesn’t means all jailbroken iPhones are in the range of attack. A little workaround to change the default password can make safe your iPhone as normal. We published a guide to change your default password of SSH, if you missed then check Secure Jailbroken iPhone and Change your Default Password.
November 18th, 2010 | Author: admin
Recently A Dutch hacker, managed to break into jailbroken iPhone & tried to extort € 5 from the victim. Later it was discovered hacker attacked a number of vulnerable phones on T-mobile Netherlands and tried to extort €5 from them. Here is the original Dutch Forum from where all the incidences comes in to light. Arstechnia added “ It appears one enterprising Dutch hacker used port scanning to identify jailbroken iPhones on T-mobile Netherlands with SSH running. Enabling SSH is a common procedure for jailbroken iPhones, allowing a user to log in via Terminal and run standard UNIX commands. Unfortunately, iPhones all have a default root password that many forget to change after jailbreaking”
