• iPhone Worm Creator gets Hired as Developer

    iPhone Worm Creator gets Hired as Developer

    Techtree News Staff, Nov 27, 2009 1711 hrs IST

    First jailbroken iPhone worm creator will now develop apps for iPhone

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Just like Michael 'Mikeyy' Mooney, the Twitter Worm creator got lucky by getting hired, now first jailbroken iPhone worm creator Ashley Towns aka "ike_x" got a job as iPhone Developer. Recently, Towns had alarmed the jailbroken iPhone owners with first iPhone worm. The first worm created by exploiting the loop hole in iPhone OS surely grabbed attention of employers.

Ashley Towns aka ikeeex on Twitter tweeted that he got a job as iPhone Developer. Graham Cluley, security analyst at Sophos Labs, once again criticized this development just like he did in Mooney's case. Cluley pointed out, in the blog post, that the first iPhone worm lead to creation of a new dangerous worm that steals financial information from iPhones and iPod Touch.




(image courtesy: Sophos Blog)

Towns will be joining Mogeneration, an iPhone App development company based in Australia.

It is indeed surprising to see the overnight hiring of the worm creator whose prank must've bothered thousands. These young folks exploit the loopholes in the codes of websites or software and then grab attention. And now, with Town getting hired, several other teenagers may get into such nefarious activities to get money or to be hired by some development company.

Not always one can expect to be rewarded for pointing a loophole and high chances of getting behind bars always exist. Finding and reporting loopholes should be encouraged by companies of the affected product rather than letting some third party reap its benefits.



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(2) Comments
John
,Brisbane, on Nov 28, 2009 04:42 AM
Apple should go after him with a lawsuit. He is no better than any other virus creator who causes malicious vanalism to individuals and companies.
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naveenchaudhary
,meerut, on Nov 27, 2009 08:32 PM
Thats a welcome move made by the company to hire a reverse engineer. appeciable............there is a plenty of talented people around who are unemployed because of some degrees(limited to theoretical studies). If most but not all companied adapt the same development strategy, sure the computers/computing will be free from viruses. nice move Mogeneration. Hope that Towns will be contributing a lot to your success.
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