{"id":1940,"date":"2009-11-11T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:30:45","slug":"rick-rolld-rick-astley-iphone-worm-eating-up-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/rick-rolld-rick-astley-iphone-worm-eating-up-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Roll&#8217;D: Rick Astley iPhone Worm Eating Up Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rick-astley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1941 alignleft lazyload\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"rick-astley\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rick-astley.jpg\" alt=\"rick-astley\" width=\"175\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rick-astley.jpg 306w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rick-astley-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/a>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>, iPhone owners in Australia got quite a surprise this week when they found their phones displaying a wallpaper of Astley\u2019s photograph with a message: \u201cIkee is never going to give you up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Ikee in question is a worm that affects a jail-broken phones, where a user has removed Apple\u2019s protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm,\u201d wrote Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-secure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that there will quickly be more variants, and they might have nastier payload than just changing your wallpaper.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bad things. Far, far worse than any Rick Astley song!<\/p>\n<p>Currently the worm has only been found in Australia, where the hacker, Ashley Towns, who wrote the program lives. The 21-year-old said he created the virus to raise the issue of security.<\/p>\n<p>The blending of Rick Astley into Towns\u2019 security awareness project is downright genius; what says be careful with your hand-held device better than Rick Astley?<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oHg5SJYRHA0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oHg5SJYRHA0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the BBC, iPhone owners in Australia got quite a surprise this week when they found their phones displaying a wallpaper of Astley\u2019s photograph with a message: \u201cIkee is never going to give you up.\u201d The Ikee in question is a worm that affects a jail-broken phones, where a user has removed Apple\u2019s protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software. \u201cThe creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm,\u201d wrote Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-secure. \u201cThis means that there will quickly be more variants, and they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[762,237,1819,1818,1820,1031,1815,1816,1817],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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