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Submission + - Man arrested for RuneScape MMORPG online robbery (sophos.com) 1

Unexpof writes: A man has been arrested by the British Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) accused of stealing the usernames and passwords from players of the RuneScape MMORPG.

Security experts report that this is one of the first occasions when a Brit has been apprehended for "virtual robbery", although incidents have happened in the past. For instance, the CEO of the sci-fi trading game Eve Online stole 200 billion "kredits", which he then used as a deposit on a real-world house, and in October last year a Japanese woman was arrested by police after allegedly hacking her virtual husband "to death".

Is it time for police forces to create virtual investigators to combat these kind of attacks?

Security

Submission + - First Apple iPhone worm discovered 1

Unexpof writes: Users of jailbroken iPhones in Australia are reporting that their wallpapers have been changed by a worm to an image of 80s pop icon Rick Astley. This is the first time a worm has been reported in the wild for the Apple iPhone.

According to a report by Sophos The worm, which exploits users who have installed SSH and not changed the default password, hunts for other vulnerable iPhones and infects them.

Users are advised to properly secure their jailbroken iPhones with a non-default password, and Sophos says the worm is not harmless, despite its graffiti-like payload:

"Accessing someone else's computing device and changing their data without permission is an offence in many countries — and just as with graffiti there is a cost involved in cleaning-up affected iPhones... Other inquisitive hackers may also be tempted to experiment once they read about the world's first iPhone worm. Furthermore, a more malicious hacker could take the code written by ikee and adapt it to have a more sinister payload."

Images of the Rick Astley wallpaper displayed on infected phones, complete with the message "ikee is never going to give you up" are published here.

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