Someone rightly said - 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, carrying the so coveted pretty looking iPhone may now give you nightmare. 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 meaaseges and all that you yourself are do not know your iPhone has. That’s something to worry about!
{Do not be surprised, this is not the first the famous iPhone is is being attacked}. misuse], we will find a couple of cases on how iphones have been made an insecure gadget.
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 very bad. (The ikee phenomenon attacks the jailbroken iPhone with SSH installed).
This may seem like owning an iPhone is dangerous!
In case this is your first time you hear ‘jailbreak’, 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.
A lot of people, who enjoy jailbroken iPhones, will probably now have to be careful to use an unlocked iPhone. And in case they still wish to go ahead with a jailbroken or an unlocked iPhone, it is advisable they read– 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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