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Security Vulnerability iPhone

A few days ago we saw how a hacker in Netherlands took advantage of the Security Vulnerability on Jailbroken iPhone. If you have made the mistake of not changing the default root password you are vulnerable to this security flaw.

The worm apparently changes the lockscreen of infected phones to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley. The worm was written by someone who goes by the name of ikee. A blogger posted the transcript of an IRC chat with ikee, in which he explained why he created the worm. The source code of the virus was made available for a while and was later taken down.

The lesson here , CHANGE THE DEFAULT PASSWORD if you have jailbroken your device. To Change the default Root Password on the iPhone :

1. Get an SSH program like putty for windows.
2. SSH to your iPhone.
3. Again in putty or any ssh client type: “passwd”. You’ll then be asked for a new password, you can change this into anything you want.

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