It is rightly said - technology comes with a price. What else would you say if you someone told you that your cool gadgets that are supposedly there to make your life easier may ask for your privacy? Yes, posessing the so desired 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 harmful virus –iPhone/privacy A, that will sweep away your iPhones’ data. Be it any feature of the phone, contacts, messages, songs, videos, images and email conversations and all that you yourself are ignorant your iPhone has. Worried? You sure have to be.
{Do not be surprised, this is not the first the famous iPhone is being targeted}. In the recent past there has been couple of such cases..
A quick look at past iPhone scandles related to the iPhone’s security
• Recently, an iPhone developer had got sued for accessing iPhone owner’s email Ids.
• Jailbroken iPhones were affected with ikee. However it didn’t get very severe. (The ikee phenomenon attacks the jailbroken iPhone with SSH installed).
This may seem like owning an iPhone is dangerous!
Okay, for those who don’t know what jailbroken iPhone is, an iPhone or iPod touch is jailbroken or unlocked to allow for third party application installations. And interestingly 5-8% of iPhones are jailbroken or unlocked.
But out there, there are a lot of people who enjoy using an unlocked iPhone. May be not now. And in case they still wish to go ahead with a jailbroken or an unlocked iPhone, here is something they would like to read before getting into any trouble– Tutorials on How to Secure an iPhone from Worms/virus, Jailbreaking and attacks.
Hopefully, your iPhone remains safe, secure and unaffected from any virus or worm or unsafe software that takes advantage of a jailbroken iPhone
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