Mogeneration hires iPhone worm writer as app developer

The creator of an iPhone worm has been hired for a legitimate app development job at Mogeneration. Ashley Towns wrote the worm Ikee, a self-propagating program that switched a user’s wallpaper to a picture of pop singer Rick Astley. The worm was allegedly not malicious, however it soon lead others to use similar code to obtain bank account login information, according to the BBC

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Mogeneration hires iPhone worm writer as app developer

This article was posted by Tech Reporter Mike Wendland. It has been archieved under Apple/Mac News.

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