Antivirus firm Sophos details the first known iPhone worm in the wild, which surfaced in Australia late last week. The worm affects users who have jailbroken their iPhones and installed SSH without then changing the default password and is currently a harmless exploit that simply changes the user’s iPhone background to an image of singer Rick Astley, but could be used for much more malicious purposes. » First iPhone Worm Affects Jailbroken iPhones
A Dutch hackers has shown the simplicity of an iPhone hack. Countless numbers of jailbroken devices were hacked by using a port scanning technique along with some networking smarts. After the guy gained access he saw that the jailbroken devices had unchanged root passwords along with SSH enabled. If you were hacked the following message popped up on your screen: » Dutch Guy Hacks Jailbroken iPhones
Geohot announced the release of Blacksn0w earlier today and just half an hour ago it was released. Blacksn0w unlocks the iPhone 3G and 3GS. You must first jailbreak your device with Blackra1n, and then install the unlock. » Blacksn0w Is Out!!
Geohot has put a video on YouTube where he shows he can unlock the newest baseband version: 05.11.07. The unlock software he is going to release eventually is going to be called Blacksn0w. The software will probably be available for download on November 4th.
Geohot has just released a new version of blackra1n. The tool allows you to jailbreak the latest firmware for both the iPhone and iPod touch. This is RC2 and fixes couple of bugs. » Blackra1n RC2 For Mac And Windows
After the release of the Windows version of Blackra1n, Geohot has now released the Mac Version. Just to make sure everybody understands: Blackra1n supports Cydia, Icy and Rock Your iPhone. Blackra1n is for people who have an ‘out of the box’ iPhone with OS 3.1 or 3.1.2. The jailbreak is for all iPhones and iPods (except for the 2G and 3G iPod touch). » Geohot Releases Blackra1n For Mac
Geohot has created Blackra1n, the first jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2. It supports Cydia and Icy and is for people who are on firmware 3.1 and 3.1.2. It is also for all devices except the iPod touch 3G. It is possible to jailbreak the iPod touch 3G but it needs to be jailbroken after every reboot.
