Critter’s Code

Have you jailbroken your iphone? It’s easy to do, and quite a few people have done it. Have you changed the default password for your SSH access on your iphone? It’s easy to do, but not many people have done it.

If you do not change the default SSH password on your iphone, your phone is at risk and so is your data! When you stop to get your coffee, and your iphone connects to the network, I can login and take what I want. Worms can automatically spread from phone to phone.

First you will need to know what the IP for your iphone is, assuming it is connected to a network. You can easily get the IP from drilling down into into your network settings.

Now that we have the IP address, just open up a terminal window (or command prompt on windows, IIRC). You can see from the image that my IP is ‘192.168.1.104′. So to connect to my iphone I type:

ssh root@192.168.1.104

You will be prompted to enter a password. (note: you will not see your password as you type it)

alpine

Once you are logged into the phone, you will need to type:

passwd

You will then be prompted to enter your new password twice. That’s it. Your iphone is now safe from any worm or malicious attacks that will utilize the default password.

That’s it. Your jailbroken iphone is now protected from any worm or malicious attack that could use the default login/pass combination for SSH.

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