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There is a new iPhone worm that is nibbling through the device and is called iKee. There has been no great threat from it as it simply changes the background picture on the device putting up the image of Rick Astley, and the link directs them to his song on YouTube. While it is harmless compared to other attacks we are notifying our users of it just shows how vulnerable we are to these, particularly to the iPhone users. Why has it got people in its grip? Well the worm feeds on the poor security of the device and as many as 100 devices have been infected by the worms creator, Ashley Towns.

I guess the jailbroken devices are more prone to this, given that many people who do so usually don’t pay attention to security issues. The password is usually left as default [username: root and password: alpine]. This vulnerability is brought to light when they install the SSH program for jail breaking etc, leaving them vulnerable. I just wonder who exactly is more responsible for this? I guess there are developers too, to a certain extent, why? Because a few of them (remember not all) are often careless in seeing through these issues. Anyways, as always, I would suggest users to avoid Jailbreaking their devices, I mean, isn’t the App Store enough?