First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

Courtesy Engadget  Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:48

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/First_iPhone_worm_rickrolls_jailbroken_phones'; We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands -- a hacker named ikex has created what's apparently the first iPhone worm, and it's currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia.

The "ikee" worm, as it's being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of "alpine," and once in the system...

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