Secure Your iPhone Against the ‘RickRoll’ worm!
Nov/090
If you’re an iPhone owner, particularly if you’ve jailbroken your phone, you probably saw the news this morning of the first ever iPhone worm to appear in the wild. The good news is that it’s just a proof-of-concept virus written by white-hat hacker Ashley Towns to spread awareness about the default password vulnerability that we’ve all known was a potential security hole for ages now. This only effects iPhone users who have jailbroken their phone and have installed SSH (and keep it running on their device, as it does by default). While the worm does ‘infect’ your iPhone with with an annoying wallpaper change, that is about the extent of it.
For more info on protecting yourself from this and future woms/virii that exploit this vulnerability check out this great YouTube video by D7 [below]. If you don’t know who he is you will probably want to subscribe. He has a plethora of helpful iPhone videos on YouTube! In addition to changing the default password I’d also suggest you get the SBSettings module ‘SSH Toggle’, this way you only have to run SSH when you actually need to use it (which isn’t very often for most users).
Thanks for the video D7!
Twitter Chatter: Weekly Updates for 2009-09-16
Sep/090
- Rock and roll, #Apple! | Gadget Cracker http://bit.ly/2bheLv #iphone #ipod #itunes #
- Some things are meant to be updated; some, not yet | Gadget Cracker http://bit.ly/15IHVf #iphone #apple #jailbreak OS 3.1 Snow Leopard #
Some things are meant to be updated; some, not yet
Sep/090
Just a few weeks ago, Snow Leopard started shipping. Those with a new Mac who was promised to have the “upgrade package at $9.95″, it came a few days later (You can’t blame them, they said it’ll only be available in September). Just before that even happened, though, developers and hackers alike found a glaring mistake by Apple: the Flash Player included in Snow Leopard was an obsolete version. While mayhem and hell hasn’t exactly broken out, Apple has swiftly provided OS X Update 10.6.1, now available through Software Update. My update is at a tiny size of 9.8MB, but if you’re going to install it on multiple computers, or Software Update doesn’t give you that option yet, you can always download the package here (DIRECT LINK) at a whopping 71.47MB.
According to Apple’s site, the updates are as follows:
- Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems
- Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser
- Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
- Addresses an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
- Resolves an issue in which the Command-Option-T keyboard shortcut would sometimes bring up the special characters menu in applications such as Mail and TextEdit
- Addresses instances in which auto account setup in Mail might not work
- Resolves issues when sending mail with certain SMTP servers
- Addresses an issue in which Motion 4 could become unresponsive
- Includes an update to Adobe Flash Player plug-in version 10.0.32.18
All Snow Leopard users are advised to update as soon as possible to fix the gaping hole Apple has left. But for iPhone 3GS users, that’s another thing.
As you guys might have known, the iPhone OS 3.1 is out. The iPhone Dev Team has reminded us that the iPhones might never be unlocked again if you update it, because the baseband might not be jailbreakable. And reports around the Internet have confirmed that the iPhone cannot be restored to 3.0 anymore. So while iPhone 2G and 3G users have to wait patiently, here’s something to do for your iPhone 3GS if you haven’t done it yet. Get the iBSS and iBEC files now before you update to 3.1.
It’s important because this is a security procedure. It was mentioned in one of the earlier posts, and if you still haven’t done it yet, the wonderful guys at Modmyi.com have come up with a very useful guide:
3G[S] Users Capture Your iBSS and iBEC BEFORE 3.1 [Reminder]
For the rest of the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch users, why not grab yourself a cup of coffee and wait? Jailbreak should be on the way, and so is the unlock. Go, Dev Team!
Rock and roll, Apple!
Sep/090
It’s D-Day! Well, not exactly, but Apple’s gotten creative this year by making the event coincide with the 090909 mark of the century. And boy, Steve Jobs is back! He’s the keynote speaker of the event. I’m sure some of you might have missed what has happened in the past hour, so why not make a summary?
Photo courtesy of gdgt
- iPhone and iPod touch OS 3.1. (duh)
- Genius function in iTunes now applied to App Store: It suggests what apps you might like based on your current inventory.
- Ringtones will be sold at $1.29.
- Free for iPhone users. Only iPod touch users who have OS 3.0 will get to download OS 3.1 for free.
- iTunes
- iTunes 9 released.
- Genius mixes (something like your iTunes DJ, but Genius technology incorporated)
- Home sharing. Songs, movies and shows can be copied to 5 different authorized computers.
- Redesigned iTunes Store.
- iTunes LP for music, Extras for movies.
- Sharing to Facebook & Twitter now possible.
- Apps can be managed through iTunes.
- iPods
- iPod touch pricings: $199 for 8GB, $299 for 32GB, $399 for 64GB
- 32GB and 64GB versions will have OpenGL.
- iPod classic will be bumped up to 160GB for the same old price: $249.
- iPod shuffle will not be kicked! In fact, there’s now the “nanochromatic” version of the shuffle for 2GB at $59, and a stainless steel version (4GB) at $99.
- iPod nano will have 2.2″ display, camera, mic and speaker built-in. FM player built-in as well. Voice recorder app and pedometer is also in that small little thing. Amazing.
- iPod nano will be draining your wallet of $149 for 8GB, or $179 for 16GB.
That’s all the announcements. I’m sure many of you guys out there have been expecting much more things from Apple, including a camera for the iPod touch. But cheer up, at least there were other improvements! And oh, jailbreakers: 3.1 is not jailbreakable yet. ;)
Twitter Chatter: Weekly Updates for 2009-09-09
Sep/090
- What to expect from the #Apple Rock n' Roll event? | Gadget Cracker http://bit.ly/2Vi8G #iphone #ipod #jailbreak #