The creator of the worm for the iPhone will write programs for the App Store

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March 5, 2010

21-year-old programmer, most recently famous for the fact that he wrote the first worm for the iPhone, got the job. Malware writers, the Ikee, striking “dzheylbreyknutye” “yablokofony”, has hired an Australian company mogeneration.

Interestingly, Townes Ashley (Ashley Towns) will develop applications for iPhone, which in total will be the App Store. Apple’s reaction is unknown. According to Townes himself, he wrote a virus to draw attention to a hole in the hacked iPhone.

Worm Ikee essentially harmless - it only replaces the background image of your phone to the famous photo of 80-ies of the artist. However, based on the code was developed more dangerous program, a target which proved to be users of the Internet bank ING.

According to independent estimates, up to 10% of all sold iPhone and iPod touch compromised.