Dennis Fisher has the skinny on a new iPhone app that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from stock iPhones, including geolocation data, passwords, address book entries and email account information, all using just the public API. The app, called SpyPhone, is the handiwork of Nicolas Seriot, a Swiss iPhone app developer [...]

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A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet. The worm, according to XS4ALL, targets jailbroken iPhones whose owners have carelessly failed to change the default password. In addition to connecting to a Lithuanian master command channel, it also changes the [...]

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Apple iPhone owners in Australia have reported that their smartphones have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop crooner Rick Astley. The worm, which could have spread to other countries although we have no confirmed reports outside Australia, is capable of breaking into jailbroken iPhones if [...]

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