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Another iPhone virus targeting jailbroken iPhones

Earlier this week, an Australian coder by the name of Ikee wrote an interesting iPhone worm targeting users with jailbroken iPhones — specifically those users who had not RTFM and changed their root password. The worm was programmed to scan the 3G IP ranges of the Telus, Optus, and Vodafone networks in Australia. Once a [...]

World’s first iPhone virus tracked

The world’s first iPhone virus is reported to be in the wild, targeting users who have cracked, or “jailbroken”, their phone. The virus, which so far appears to be confined to Australia, changes the user’s wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and displays the message “Ikee is never gonna give you [...]