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Nov 23rd
Monday

In the past weeks , the www. was full of stories about malicious iPhone worms. Today a new story was published by the BBC news website , and while this worm seems like a fair threat , the title of the story is quite choppy and amateurish Read the whole story »

Nov 10th
Tuesday

There’s been a lot of hoopla lately about the latest “iPhone worm” that apparently will Rickroll your iPhone. Read the whole story »

Nov 8th
Sunday

A programmer in Australia has created a worm that changes the lockscreen of infected phones to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley. Like the recent Dutch “hack” that replaced users’ wallpaper with a demand for money, this worm accesses jailbroken iPhones that are running OpenSSH and are still using the default root password. Read the whole story »