'Jailbroken' or ' Jailbreaking'- iPhone or iTouch which are modified to use applications not approved by Apple are under attack by two new worms . The first worm also know as ikee or Rickrolling worm which was created by an australian student changes the wallpaper of the jailbroken iPhone to a picture of '80s pop star Rick Astley. He told a local media that he experimenting with a malicious code which went wrong, infecting lot of jailbroken iPhone users on the Optus network, australia.

The second worm targeted customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct. Surfers visiting the the ING direct site with the infected devices are redirected to a phishing site. The "Duh" or Ikee-B worm, like the Rickrolling worm exploits an SSH backdoor on jailbroken handsets in order to spread. Unlike the former this spreads across a wider range of ip. The worm changes the infected iPhones root password from "alpine" to "ohshit".

Now the phishing sites have been brought down by the officials. Experts advises the jaibroken phones to change their passwords from 'alpine'. Though Jailbreaking gives a lot of advantages there are some security holes in it.

Think twice before jailbreaking an iphone or i touch.

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