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From Wired’s Gadget Lab: You could get skilled with the piano after years of practice, but imagine how good you’d be at playing an instrument you invented. A college course and the iPhone are making that possible for computer-science students at the University of Michigan. Now, at the end of the course, the class ensemble [...]

From Dark Reading’s SophosLabs Insights: The latest iPhone worm is much more malicious than the last one. Rather than the Ikee worm’s trick of changing your wallpaper to a (for some disturbing) image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, the Duh worm hijacks your jailbroken iPhone, turning it into part of a botnet. As if [...]

From DownLoad Squad: It’s only been a couple of weeks since Windows 7 was released, but Microsoft’s new OS has already captured a larger percentage of the market than Apple’s OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Linux (yes, all of Linux). This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, considering how many Windows users were clamoring [...]

From ISC Sans: Those of us who spent our formative years in the 80′s would know, but for those a bit younger, if you have a jailbroken iPhone and are wondering who just appeared as your wallpaper, it’s Rick Astley, a singer who was (at least somewhat) popular in the 80′s.  His video was the [...]

From Dark Reading: It fits behind a coffee machine, inside a desk drawer, or in your pocket, and it doesn’t arouse suspicion if you walk into a bank or office tapping away on it — and that’s why a security expert has turned an iPod Touch into a full-blown hacking tool. Thomas Wilhelm, associate professor [...]

From US-CERT US-CERT is aware of public reports of a phishing attack circulating via email messages that appear to be targeting Apple MobileMe users. These messages claim that there is a problem with the user’s billing information and instruct the user to follow a web link to update personal information. Clicking on this link directs [...]

Ok, so maybe I went a bit far with the title.  Let’s just call it artistic license. Anyways, Apple has announced a new security position dedicated to securing the iPhone in hopes of pursuing the enterprise marketplace.  Is it ready for primetime yet?  Not even close, but Apple’s new focus on security is a step [...]