Jailbroken iPhone worm on the loose down-under
I’m not surprised to see the news that one of the first worms has hit the jailbroken iPhone community. Granted it appears that this one does not do anything malicious, except for changing your wallpaper to an old 1980s picture of Rick Astley which the author apparently must have been a fan of. :-)
Please see more details here: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/11/08/iphone-worm-discovered-wallpaper-rick-astley-photo/
This again brings up some important aspects when dealing with the iPhone and especially jailbroken iPhone’s in your business environment. You probably want to filter and block any jailbroken iPhone devices from accessing your corporate data. Or at the very least make it a user policy that jailbroken devices are not acceptable. I believe at least one Device Management solution can detect a jailbroken iPhone, please see the information on MobileIron.
As Jonathan Zdziarski brings up repeatedly there are specific security gaps that you should be aware of when support the iPhone. To a certain extent custom applications can be coded to provide some protection of these gaps. See a good presentation of this here..
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