New iPhone Worm: How Worried Should We Be? [ReadWriteWeb]
If you're an Apple iPhone user that's broken free from Apple's walled garden, your phone may be vulnerable to a worm called iKee. Users that have "jailbroken" their iPhones - removing them from Apple's control over the applications that can be installed on the phone - are now at risk of contracting iKee. iKee is a worm that propagates itself to these unprotected iPhones. iKee changes the iPhone's background image to one of Rick Astley - a kind of rickrolling for the infected iPhone.
iKee is the creation of a 21 year-old Australian hacker that developed the worm in an effort to highlight the poor security features of the iPhone. And while iKee doesn't currently have a malicious intent toward individual iPhones, it may give malicious hackers a blueprint for infecting iPhones with more problematic malware. For now, there are instructions available for iPhone users to avoid iKee.
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