iPhone worm creator Ashley Towns gets hired!

Recently, Towns had alarmed the jail broken iPhone owners with the first iPhone worm. The worm created by exploiting the loop hole in iPhone OS grabbed the attention of employers!

Ashley Towns on Twitter tweeted that he got a job as iPhone Developer, and 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, reports Techtree.

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  • sarveshgupta
    sarveshgupta
    hey that's amazing the destroyer gets the job of developer
  • Ashraf HZ
    Ashraf HZ
    Well, if you can't beat them, hire them ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Hopefully his intent is not malicious. He could probably assist in security fixes, but being an official developer gives him opportunities to slip in any worms under a legitimate pretext.
  • sarveshgupta
    sarveshgupta
    ash
    Well, if you can't beat them, hire them ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Hopefully his intent is not malicious. He could probably assist in security fixes, but being an official developer gives him opportunities to slip in any worms under a legitimate pretext.
    and also know the still underlying things if left hidden from his eyes

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