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Be careful! Malware Secretly Copies Private iPhone Data

Now iPhone means popular and cool, you can give a call to others, send massages to them and play games by iPhone, you even make the system to remember your username, password and other private information, if you are using a kind of application. However, is this really secure?
 
A few days after the ikee worm( a kinds of iPhone worm virus which is named by its creator) was unleashed, a new malware tool which can steal users's private date from jailbroken iPhone has been discovered. It is a malware tool which can run on computers or iPhone.

It had been discovered that it will copie all private data including SMS messages, videos, email, photos or apps data from the computer. The program does all this without ever making the iPhone user aware of its intrusion.

In fact only the jailbroken iPhones that are running SSH with the default root password are vulnerable to the attack. So the best way to secure your jailbroken iPhone is to change the default root password immediately. Other solutions include removing the SSH package from your iPhone or turning off SSH.

Everyone is known that, SSH is a famous security protocol and its full name is security shell. It will encrypt all of your data and protect them from stealing and modifying by the  "middleman" in the process of information transportation. However, it is not security as it is advertised, and it is paid apps. So now more and more people selected free OpenSSH to instead of it.
 

Although it is heard that the malware is awful, iPhones that are not jailbroken are not at risk from it or any of the known ikee worm. After all it is a lucky news to users whom are using authorized iPhone but not jailbroken iPhone.

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