Stephen Withers
Friday, 27 November 2009 02:28
Your IT -
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The creator of the first iPhone worm has been hired by an iPhone development company.
The
Ikee worm appeared earlier this month, changing the lock background image of infected iPhones to a photo of eighties singer Rick Astley.
It spread from one iPhone to another across the mobile phone network.
The worm relied SSH having been installed on jailbroken iPhones, and the user failing to change the default root password. Unmodified iPhones were therefore not at risk.
Ikee was widely reported as being the work of NSW man Ashley Towns after some
online detective work by Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
Towns subsequently gave interviews to various media outlets.
A couple of weeks later,the Ikee-based
Duh showed up with malicious intent, recruiting the iPhones it infected into a botnet and diverting certain online banking traffic to a fake site. Duh apparently originated in the Netherlands.
Now Towns has reportedly been hired by an Australian iPhone app development company. Please
read on.
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