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iPhone May Get Infected too

Posted by Jason in Mac on January 12th, 2008

The , that extremely popular gadget built by the Cupertino company , is one of the latest devices threatened by some malicious packages, as Orla Cox of Symantec today warned. What’s interesting is that this , if we can name it so, is not as dangerous as it may sound, because the only thing it does is to harm some of the applications deployed on the affected . The malicious file comes as a firmware update and is named “ firmware 1.1.3 prep”. Its creators described the package “an important system update; install this before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware”, according to the Symantec official. (more…)