Security Response: Showing posts tagged with Security Response: Showing posts by John McDonald

It's only been a couple of short weeks since the iPhone background-changing incident that took the world by storm (well, parts of Australia at least), but already a Dutch ISP has reported what would be the first malicious iPhone worm to be seen in the wild.

Unfortunate news to be sure, but not exactly surprising. Our two recent blogs relating to iPhone threats warned (and I quote) that 'the publicly released code could easily be altered so that consequences were not so benign'. In case you missed them, the first blog was about the Ikee rickroller, which wasn't really considered malicious in that it only changed the iPhone background to a picture of 80's pop singer Rick Astley and was really more of a warning from the creator that jailbroken iPhones in a certain state could be compromised. That incident...

It seems someone has it in for Delphi. Or at least older Delphi environments and programs compiled using them. As has been reported, there is a threat on the loose that targets Delphi development environments, specifically versions 4 through 7.

To provide some brief background, Delphi is a software development environment for Microsoft Windows applications. Using Pascal as its underlying language, Delphi came into being when Windows 3.1 was first released along with the introduction of the graphical user interface (GUI).

According to Wikipedia, Delphi 7 was released in August 2002 and became the standard version used by Delphi developers. Delphi 7 was the last free version released, which probably explains why it is still actively used today. Delphi is mainly used for the development of desktop and enterprise database applications, but it is a general-purpose software development tool suitable for most software projects including Web applications. It is a popular...