iPhone Malware Steals Data
Someone rightly said that technology comes with a price. What else would you say if you got to know all that cool gadgets that are supposedly there to make your life easier may ask for your privacy? Yes, posessing the so coveted pretty looking iPhone may now not be all that comforting. Seriously – the iPhone’s that carry a lot of your stuff stored in it, may also carry a harmful virus –iPhone/privacy A, that will sweep away your iPhones’ data. Be it anything, contacts, messages, songs, videos, images and email meaaseges and all that you yourself are unaware your iPhone has. Worried? You sure have to be.
{Do not be surprised, this is not the first the famous iPhone is experiencing something like this}. If we give a quick look at the history of iPhone [hacking.
A brief look at past iPhone scandles related to the iPhone’s security
• An iPhone developer had was sued for accessing iPhone owner’s email Ids.
• The ikee episode affected iPhones. However it didn’t get very severe. (The ikee phenomenon attacks the jailbroken iPhone with SSH installed).
This may seem like owning an iPhone is dangerous!
Okay, for those who don’t know what jailbroken iPhone is, an iPhone or iPod touch is jailbroken or unlocked to allow for third party application installations. So that was jailbreaking and the threat to jailbroken iPhones.
But out there, there are a lot of people who enjoy using an unlocked iPhone. May be not now. And in case they still wish to flaunt a jailbroken or an unlocked iPhone, here is something they would like to read before getting into any trouble– Tutorials on How to Secure an iPhone from Worms/virus, Jailbreaking and attacks.
Hopefully, your iPhone remains safe, secure and unaffected from any virus or worm or unsafe software that takes advantage of a jailbroken iPhone