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First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:57:33 +0000

We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands – a hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The “ikee” worm, as it’s being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of “alpine,” and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network. Sophos says it hasn’t confirmed any infections outside of Oz, and to be clear, this worm can’t get to stock iPhones or jailbreak owners who haven’t installed SSH — but if you’re running a hacked phone we’d say you should change that root password just to be safe right away. Get to it, kids.

Via PMP Today

Apple: Jailbreaking encourages cell tower terrorism, “catastrophic results”

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:01:29 +0000

If trashing your push messaging wasn’t enough to steer you clear of using your iPhone in unauthorized ways, this next bit of news might have you back on the straight and narrow. According to Wired, Apple’s latest salvo in the fight over jailbreaking is a claim that pernicious, iPhone wielding techno-hackers at home or abroad could modify the baseband and use it to attack cellphone towers, “rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data.” Of course, the idea that this would become more likely if the legal status of jailbreaking changes is totally absurd, but why let that stand in the way of a legal argument?

In a related note, one of our editors (whose jailbroken iPhone shall remain nameless) got a strange baseband pop-up error this morning — the very same morning that AT&T is suffering a “massive connectivity outage” throughout the northeast and midwest. Coincidence? Yeah, probably.

By : Joseph L. Flatley

iPhone 3GS-compatible redsn0w jailbreak released

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:30:12 +0000

You won’t find an official announcement anywhere on the iPhone dev-team’s blog yet, but a new version of the redsn0w jailbreak, 0.8, has just been posted to its official torrents that apparently includes 3GS compatibility (in addition to support for the 3G and original iPhones plus the second-gen iPod touch, as before). Whether it’s better than GeoHot’s purplera1n jailbreak is unknown, but hey, the more, the merrier — even the iPhone hacking community isn’t immune from brutally competitive market forces, eh?

By : Chris Ziegler

Stock-looking MMS support hacked onto 2G iPhone

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:26:08 +0000

Way back in the heady days of 2007, there was an iPhone without 3G data (hard to believe, we know, but trust us — we were there). This iPhone, though revolutionary in some ways, was marred by the love-hate relationship its users suffered for missing out on some very basic features that they’d grown used to on mobiles of yore. One of those missing features, of course, was MMS — and now, some two years later, here we are with a truly integrated MMS experience courtesy of the all-powerful hacking community. Granted, there have been MMS apps available for ages, but there’s a difference: this is the same action 3G and 3GS owners are getting in conjunction with OS 3.0, which Apple curiously decided to hold back from original iPhone owners. As you might imagine, getting this going on your own phone is marginally more complicated than downloading from the App Store, so here’s the question, you non-upgraders: just how badly do you want it?

By : Chris Ziegler