How to make your iPhone a hacker's dream machine
And hackers are taking full advantage, Intego reports. A jailbroken iPhone is usually made accessible through an SSH (secure shell) Unix command, which can be invoked over the air, not just when the iPhone is tethered -- part of the jailbreaking process usually involves installing the OpenSSH utility. But few people who jailbreak their iPhones bothered to change the default password, and hackers quickly learned they could scan ports to find OpenSSH and log in to install nefarious software. (For the record, Intego notes that not all networks allow such access; those that use NAT, for example, prevent this kind of phishing.)
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