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iTunes + iPhone 4 + pre-populated credit card fields

Ashley Knowles — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:29:52 +0000

Okay. So I had this song stuck in my head while I was on the bus this morning, and it totally got to me…

Me being the MacFag that I am, with my iPhone 4 and all, jumped on iTunes and downloaded the album, a minute later I had it all right there, playing through my little Sennheiser’s.

I’m embarrassed to admit it, this is the third legitimate music purchase through iTunes… Why? Because they make it so easy!

Curse Apple for putting a music shop in my pocket!

EDIT: Oh yeah, Art vs Science are awesome….

iPhone Data Recovery

Ashley Knowles — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:53:29 +0000

iPhone needs to be jailbroken to do this (tested on my iPhone 4, with iOS 4.0.1 using the www.jailbreakme.com jailbreaker). You don’t need OpenSSH installed, but I prefer it. If you install OpenSSH, connect using root@iphoneipaddress, password ‘alpine’ – I suggest changing this using the `passwd` command while you’re at it. MobileTerminal currently doesn’t work on iOS 4.0.1, atleast on the iPhone 4.

Pull image off iPhone using the following commands.

aknowles-mac:~ aknowles$ nc -l 30001 | dd of=iphone.img

iPhone:~ root# dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2s1 bs=1M | nc 192.168.1.1 30001

The first command uses `nc`, aka netcat, and opens a port up and listens using the -l switch. You run this on your destination computer, and pipe the output to the disk image file, i.e. iphone.img (filename unimportant).

On the iPhone itself, you point `nc` to the destination computer after it has been setup to listen. Pipe the output of `dd` reading the iPhone disk to the `nc` command and it will transfer. Note: I found the iPhone would not read the disk without the bs=1M switch.

The process can take a while. It’s taken about 20 minutes for 2.5gb to transfer over the wireless link I’ve setup between my laptop and my iPhone… For a 32gb iPhone, this will obviously take a while!!!

Once complete, analyse iphone.img with Scalpel or whichever forensics software you prefer.

Reference Links:

www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=22588

log.ijulien.com/post/182804914/iphone-3gs-data-recovery

modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/237321-how-iphone-data-recovery.html

First iPhone “Virus”

Ashley Knowles — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:48:17 +0000

Interesting. Only affects jailbroken iPhones. I’m curious to see *how* it does this, but I’m taking an educated guess that the virus scans for iPhone’s with SSHD running, and then attempts to logon with the default username / password (which is root/alpine by the way), and then has it’s way with the victim’s iPhone. Clever, yet so simple…

Suffice to say, my root password on my iPhone is now changed!

Oh and I love the Rick Roll effect. Personally, I would have set the ring tone to Rick Astley as well