The first iPhone worm, known as iPhoneOS.Ikee, recently hit the news everywhere. The purpose of this worm was to show that jailbroken iPhones had a flaw that could be easily exploited.
On the heels of a similar iPhone attack by a Dutch teenager, an Australian hacker (using the same technique) has written the first iPhone worm for jailbroken iPhones. The worm has been dubbed “Ikee” and uses the default SSH password of jailbroken iPhones to log in and spread. Please note that this worm does not impact iPhones that have not been jailbroken.
Malware authors often leave hidden messages in files for analysts to find or for other malware authors to see. However, finding a curse on my whole family in a flash exploit file came as somewhat of a surprise!
A new zero-day exploit that affects Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) was posted on Milw0rm yesterday. According to the posting the exploit works on both IIS 5.0 and 6.0, on the FTP module.
Koobface is a worm that infects users by using social engineering attacks. It spreads by abusing social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, or by employing search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to lure potential victims to malicious sites.
In the last few years, voice over IP (VoIP) has gained a significant foothold in the realm of voice communication. In some arenas the technology has supplanted traditional telecommunication devices, becoming a technology many of us can no longer imagine going without.
Fireworks weren't the only thing going off on the 4th of July. Several U.S. and South Korean government, financial, and media websites were attacked and at different times, were offline. There's been a lot of speculation about the source of the attacks, but here is what we know so far.