Someone rightly said that technology comes with a price. What else would you say if you someone told you that your cool gadgets that are supposedly there to make your life easier may someday cost you your privacy? Yes, posessing the so desired 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 dreadful worm –iPhone/privacy A, that will sweep away your iPhones’ data. Be it any feature of the phone, contacts, messages, songs, videos, images and email conversations and all that you yourself are unaware your iPhone has. That’s something to worry about!
{Do not be surprised, its not the first the famous iPhone is is being attacked}. In the recent past there has been couple of such cases..
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.
• Jailbroken iPhones were affected with ikee. However it didn’t get very very bad. (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. And interestingly 5-8% of iPhones are jailbroken or unlocked.
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 guarded from any virus or worm or unsafe software that takes advantage of a jailbroken iPhone
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