The ikee worm reported on the 9th November where the iPhone wallpaper is changed to an angelic picture of 80s music legend Rick Astley. A 21year old from Austrialia thought it would be a joke to infect vunerable phones with the worm. It has since spread global.
It seems that only phones that have been Jailbroken are infected and those that have the SSH software installed. This allows them to install 3rd party apps not approved by Apple.
I do not think Mr Towns who wrote the virus should be penalised in any way, afterall, he did in fact shed some light on the fact that Apple has actually shown a lack of security knowledge for their product. If backstreet programming was unable to take place then the security threat would be much less. It is impossible to have solutions to all security threats and viruses though it is good for other vunerabilites to come to light which perhaps the origional designer may not have thought about.
Security in computing is very big business and its helpful to be made aware of potential threats so they can be dealt with accordingly. Apple have since employed someone to oversee a team of software engineers dedicated to the iPhone OS security.
If your anything like me you would have been sitting at the XBOX 360 playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and thinking how the heck do they do all of this. So it got me wanting to try and make my own game.
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