IPhone has a worm for it now
A worm born in Australia is now spreading through iphones as fast it can. Its coming to an IPhone near you. But don’t panic yet. Till now it don’t have a bad intention of doing anything.
The worm, dubbed Ikee, changes the wallpaper of the exploited phones to a picture of Rick Astley and then looks to infect other phones.
Despite being harmless now, “there is a real danger that someone could take this code and make it do something malicious,” says Graham Cluley, a technology consultant with security vendor Sophos, however.
Only those users are vulnerable using jailbroken phones with SSH running with the default password. Many of the users are still using the default password, allowing for easy access. SSH allows for remote access between the phone and the Internet.
The worm was written by a young Australian, Ashley Towns.
“It was supposed to be a small prank I definitely wasn’t expecting it to get as far as it did,”
says Towns.
So don’t wait for anything now. Just change your iphone ssh password or don’t just jailbreak your Iphone. 
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