The hacker called Ashley Towns who created the Ikee worm for the iPhone has been approached by Australian firm of Mogeneration and been offered a job as iPhone application developer for them.
In other words, Ikee is being rewarded for creating the first worm for the iPhone which has lead to other worms being created which are more malicious such as the Dutch one which steals the bank details of users who use the ING Dutch bank. Read the rest of this entry »
iBotnet is the third worm to infect the iPhone and iPod Touch using an exploit with the SSH password that most people don’t bother to change from ‘alpine’. The other instances of worms on the iPhone were called Ikee and the iPhone/Privacy.A. The Ikee worm was a harmless one which changed the background of your lockscreen to a photo of Rick Astley. However the second one (and this one) are more harmful. Read the rest of this entry »
In the end it was to be expected after news of the Ikee worm spreading through iPhone’s that a more malicious worm was coming soon to the iPhone.
This worm is targetting Dutch users who user their devices to do eBanking with the Dutch online bank ING. What it does is redirects the ING login page to a phishing site which then steals your data and eventually, your money. Read the rest of this entry »
After all the hype of the two hacks that have accured in Australia and Germany where users will access the filesystem of a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch through SSH and change stuff on the phone.
As of now, the hacks have been harmless because they simply changed the background of the device but this exploit has the potential to add worms and viruses to your device which could then be used to infect your computer once you have synced it. Read the rest of this entry »
After all the scare with the SSH hackers going on, many people have finally realized the importance on changing your default SSH password. Therefore, to aid these people, we have decided to post this guide teaching users how to change their default SSH password. Read the rest of this entry »
After news of the Dutch hacker changing your background making it as if he has taken over your device and demands 5 euros in exchange for regaining the control of your device, more people have decided to take advantage of this hole is jailbroken devices and spreading worms throughout the community.
This time, it’s a guy called Ikee who spreads the worm and ‘rickrolls’ users by changing their background as well.
Plus we have posted an interview with the hacker who explains why and how he did it. Read the rest of this entry »
A dutch hacker has come up with a cunning plan on how to make some extra euros using his hacking skills. What he does it take over you iPhone and then demand a €5 donation and then he will give you iPhone back under your control. Read the rest of this entry »
Since the beginning I have never used SSH because originally I could never get it to work. So I search and searched around for an equivalent and I found one that it not really known by a lot of people. I think everyone should use it because it is more reliable that SSH because simply, it uses USB cable rather than over the air. Plus it has worked with every firmware I have been on from 1.1.1 to 3.0. It’s called Total Commander. Read the rest of this entry »
