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New iPhone virus steals banking information

F-Secure have discovered another virus that is targeting jailbroken iPhones. At the moment it is targeting people in Netherlands who are using the iPhone for internet banking with the Dutch online bank ING Direct. When the iPhone user tries to log in to their bank, the warm redirects the bank’s customers to a look-a-like site with a login screen. This worm is attacking jailbroken iPhones only. If you have a jailbroken iPhone with OpenSSH installed, please follow these simple steps here to pro...

Check a site reputation using Cisco’s FREE iPhone/iPod Touch security application

Cisco has launched a FREE iPhone application “Cisco SIO To Go” that will allow you to consult the latest security threats and alerts from its extensive internet traffic and email monitoring and security experts. Simply entering the IP address or domain name in the application, you will determine a sites  “reputation”. These days, it’s hard to stay on top of security threats. New viruses and exploits pop up every day; many security managers can barely keep their heads above water. This revolu...

Memo warns us of new malicious iPhone hack

For the third time now in less than a month, jailbroken iPhone's are being threatened by malicious code. Only this time it's not just a warning on your home screen nor a wallpaper change. As per the security firm Intego, this new threat named "iPhone/Privacy.A", will actually infiltrate your device to steel your contacts, text messages, e-mail address...basically anything in the iPhone storage. At this point in time, we have no information of iPhone's infected by this malicious code. You can ...

First iPhone worm spreads Australia

The very first worm named Ikee is infecting Jailbroken iPhones targeting only Australia. The worm doesn’t really harm the iPhone itself but adds a wallpaper of the 80's singer Rick Astley and then seeks out other iPhone's to infect. It  doesn't affect most iPhone users; like I said above it only impacts those with Jailbroken iPhones that are running the Unix utility called SSH (Secure Shell) with the iPhone's default password, "alpine," still in use. Here is a screenshot of the wallpaper in q...

Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage

Many of us have jailbroken iPhones, but did anyone remember to change the default root password? Those guilty of that oversight are vulnerable to the simple intrusion method this guy used to hold iPhones hostage in the Netherlands.  Apparently all that it took to terrify many Dutch iPhone users was a "trivial" port scanning technique and "a modicum of networking know-how." After the hacker gained access to the jailbroken phones with unchanged root passwords and SSH enabled, he sent the pictur...