Star Worm for Jailbroken iPhones with Default Root Passwords
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 23:39 UTC
Apple The web went aflame today with headlines like "First iPhone worm discovered", and many other variants. Most of those headlines, however, left out a very important little fact which diminishes the impact of the news considerably: it only affects jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed, and with default root passwords.
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RE: Misleading
by Lennie on Tue 10th Nov 2009 00:36 UTC in reply to "Misleading"
Lennie
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2007-09-22

Normally you'd expect SSH would enhance security. ;-)

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