A new worm, called the iPhone/Privacy.A worm, connects to jailbroken iPhones running SSH with the default password and takes a “treasure trove” of data including email, SMS messages, photos, music files, and everything else on your phone. It then kills your dog.
OK, the last part was a joke but come on. If you jailbreak your phone, change your password. Real simple. You can follow these directions or simply SSH into your iPhone and type “passwd” and enter a new password. Easy peasy.
So if I am jailbroken, but not running SSH I have nothing to worry about?
wait and see, what’s the worst that could happen?
Correct. They always seem to leave out the fact that jailbreaking on it’s own DOES NOT install SSH.
Wrong, jailbreaking DOES install SSH, or more correctly it opens it so you SHOULD SET A PASSWORD!!! (There already happened some things in the Netherlands concerning this, so I am pretty sure that ALL JAILBROKEN phones (or at least the jailbreaks used in the NL) are open to this, ssh was/is even blocked by our iphone provider :P)
ha ha, good joke
How does the worm find jailbroken phones in the first place? Is it just randomly pining IPs hoping to find an open one?
Please don’t crack jokes without warning us..
What percentage of iphones are jailbroken? Its something I would never consider with my iPhone. Based on the bother I cant even see the benefits of it. Could anything like this emerge on non-jail broken iPhones?
Jailbreaking an iPhone does NOT install SSH, you have to do that yurself after you jailbreak, using cydia. When you DO install SSH, which you do so you can send files/commands to your iPhone from any PC Securely, you are warned that you have to change your root password, and told how to do it, otherwise it is NOT secure.
To sum up, IF you don’t know how or why you install SSH on your jailbroken iPhone, DON’T INSTALL SSH ON YOUR JAILBROKEN IPHONE!
Simply change the root password on your iPhone. But, many people might not aware about it.