this article basically talks about a worm that has been discovered in Australia that affects the apple i phone. the worm affects i phones that has been jail-broken, which means that the users removed apple's protection software. the virus is not harmful but it can evolve into a massive privacy problem. when the worm enter the phone it disables the SSH services. se the articles warns people to change their passwords to prevent the virus from entering, and also recomends people to not disable the apple's protection sofware.
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Personal electronic devices like cell phones contain personal information like mailing addresses, account loggins, and financial information. So this problem could negatively impact society as a thread to personal privacy. It is very important to protect the data from unauthorized access. A number of methods can be used in this quest. One way is to encrypt sensitive data, which involves converting the data into a form that cannot be easily understood by an unauthorized user.The measure to take to have the highest level of security for a PED is securing its network. If the device has Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, it should be disabled when not in use. This helps minimize the chance of unauthorized users accessing the device. There are monitoring and notification programs, such as System Security Monitor for Pocket PC.
I do not think the method the creator of the virus, Ashley town, decided to take to raise awareness of the security problems. Although the virus itself is not malicious, because it allows for other users to change its source, there is a high probability that a malicious virus for iPhone applications will appear. So although I think that the hacker's intention to raise awareness was good, there should have been another way of doing it even though it might have been effective.
ResponderEliminarI agree with Chong with the intention of the author not being malicions but to raise awareness of how people could infiltrate your iPhones. Also that through this harmless virus, as a source, others will surge with actual malitious goals and thats when the real problem will begins.
ResponderEliminarI think I have to agree with both Chong and Cesar because this worm is not that 'harmful' and to only raise awareness of the security issues on iPhone. As it said that the creator of the worm has the full source code of four variants. I think the creator make this worm as a first 'test' to see what happen to iPhone users. Then in the future, the creator will create more arising security issues.
ResponderEliminarI(Akira) think the person who made this virus (not harmful) was just having fun to make virus and spreading them. On the article, about the methods to prevent getting virus, turning off bluetooth and Wi-Fi is a good idea but I am not sure about encryption of sensitive information. Because you will not be able to encrypt the phone numbers, e-mail address or names. I would like to know what specifically "sensitive data" is.
ResponderEliminarI'm also curious as to how you would encrypt data on a cell phone. How would that work?
ResponderEliminarI am going to take the hackers side on this one. If they "warned people" through other means like writing a blog or new article do you think people would have listened? There many articles published every day on potential security problems but unless it is an actual problem people aren't going to do anything about it. Sometime you have to shock people into action.
i agree with you Mr. Robinson, because as the problem wont actually affect people's personal life, they wont take action in order to stop, as they think that thoose things happen to other people. but as it is personally affecting people in societies, peope now knows that they could also be affected, and they know that they have to take action on the problem and start to block their cellphones with passwords and not intalling ilegal softaware.
ResponderEliminarApplying common sense will prevent or minimize any damage to electronic devices. There is no other way to stop wrong doers in their intentions.
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