{"id":10627,"date":"2009-11-27T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-27T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T05:57:00","slug":"iphone-virus-writer-gets-iphone-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/10627-iphone-virus-writer-gets-iphone-job.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone virus writer gets iPhone job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashley Towns released a harmless worm that installed on the iPhone wallpaper a photograph of 1980s pop singer Rick Astley. The 21-year-old said it was a wake up call for iPhone owners who “jailbreak” their devices and leave them unprotected by pass codes.<\/p>\n

Towns, who claims his Rickrolling worm is the first successful assault on the security system of the glamorous Apple Inc product, is joining leading Australian iPhone application developer Mogeneration Pty Ltd.<\/p>\n

iPhone virus writer<\/strong><\/a> – discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unemployed Australian computer whiz who last month generated headlines around the world by creating a landmark virus affecting iPhones announced Friday he had scored a job writing application software for iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}