First iPhone Worm Discovered in Wild
It was only a matter of time before this happened. iPhone owners in Australia who have JailBroken their iPhones and installed the ssh client are now finding that they have been Rickrolled.
The backgrounds on their phones now show the face of a young Rick Astley.
This is bad news for anyone with an iPhone, America’s most prominent phone, because this illustrates that the iPhone is not impenetrable like Apple likes to claim about their OSX. This is also encouragement for others to start developing malware for the iPhone. If other malware developers get their hands on the Rickrolling worm but add a more dangerous payload, there’s no telling what types of things they could end up doing (record texts, phone calls, etc).
If you are a person who hates the ridiculous restrictions that Apple places on their phones, but still want the iPhone, you’re probably going to jailbreak it. If you jailbreak the phone, you’ll probably install the SSH Client. If you do this, make sure you also download MobileTerminal and change that password!
To change the SSH password:
open Terminal
type “passwd” (without the quotes)
It will ask you for your old password. Use “alpine”
Now it will ask you for your new password. The same rules apply to this password as bank passwords. Consider this, you check your bank account with your iPhone? What abour email? Do you ever give out credit card numbers over the phone? That’s why you’ll want a strong password.
Voila, you now have a more secure iPhone.