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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software

Hacked iPhones Need Password Reset

Tuesday November 10, 2009

In the past few weeks, there have been a couple of worms targeted hacked iPhones. Nothing major and highly regional, but still a good wake up call. To spread, the worms take advantage of the default password on a jailbroken iPhone. If you decided to jailbreak your iPhone but have not changed the default passwords, you should definitely make sure you do that. Here are a couple of good resources to help you through the process:

The iPhone Hacking Kit, step by step (MacWorld)
Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone
(Gizmodo)


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