News: Australian developer creates first iPhone virus
A 21-year-old Australian TAFE student has created the world’s first iPhone virus designed to infect phones that have not been protected by passwords.
But the creator of the virus, Ashley Towns, has since retreated from the public eye after releasing the app, blocking his Twitter account in order to prevent users from reading his updates.
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RoberRM on November 12th, 2009
Apparently, the second installment of this virus (created by other guy) is not that harmless anymore: http://blog.intego.com/2009/11.....m-iphones/
Be careful, people!
RoberRM on November 10th, 2009
Just to reduce the panic this bit of news could cause, I’d like to point out that this virus only affects Jailbroken iPhones whose password is the default one (alpine, I believe it is) and have SSH installed.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6080