Using a technique demonstrated last week by Ashley Towns, a 21-year-old unemployed Australian programmer, as a self-described “prank,” hackers have started pillaging personal and business data from jailbroken iPhones.
The vulnerability in question consists of the unchanged default password of the Secure Shell (SSH) Unix utility that users installed while or after jailbreaking their phone. SSH allows users to connect to their iPhone through an encrypted channel remotely over the Internet or a local area network (LAN).
Given that this “vulnerability” provides the attacker with root (superuser/full) access to the iPhone, various other scenarios are just as likely to occur soon, such as running up phone bills, sending bulk MMS/SMS messages, etc.
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