SlashGear reports today on an Apple patent application that could mean that future Apple devices will have the ability to automatically lock themselves and send special alerts to their owners, as well as possibly even alerting Apple, if they are used by someone who is not authorised to use them, or, even more significantly, if they are modified in an unauthorised manner. SlashGear says that... more.

If this story on CIO.com is anything to go by, the answer is, probably not! CIO.com security expert Tom Kaneshige reports on a new survey by ESET, an anti-malware software company, which says that most iPhone users are not that bothered about security issues. Speaking to CIO.com at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, director of technical education at ESET, James Abrams, said that iPhone users... more.

ZDNet’s excellent and informative Zero Day security blog (well worth checking out for all your security concerns), reports today that Apple has acted swiftly today to issue a patch to take care of five vulnerabilities that could leave the iPhone and iPod touch at the mercy of hackers. Zero Day states that the most serious vulnerability could enable remote code execution if audio or image fil... more.

Don’t believe me?  Take a peek at what I found over on Jalopnik.  These fine students watched Tomorrow Never Dies once or twice too many, and then had a bit too much time on their hands.  Pretty fancy stuff for an Oldsmobile! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x5IziyOcAg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyN_Std5zg[/youtube]... more.

For those of you running a jailbroken iPhone in Europe and Australia, be on the lookout for a new worm that just popped up.  The good people over at Macworld.com have reported that their source who has seem the worm out in it’s natural habitat.  I am going to try and stumble through this and let you know what the worm is up to. First things first, CHANGE YOUR ROOT ACCOUNT PASSWORD.  Ok... more.

Now that Greg (MobileCrunch) has given full instructions for jailbreaking and tethering, I thought I would give one more interesting thing you can do with a jailbroken iPhone and SSH access – change those ugly icons! “Resident theming genius” (theiphoneblog), Ally (iMuggle on TiPb Forums and in the Twitter) has begun collecting her excellent tutorials into one easy to browse place. Here’s ... more.

The Dev-Team once again is on the ball and has released instructions to unlock and jailbreak iPhone 3.1.  However the update only works with the iPhone 1st Generation (2G), the iPhone 3G and the iPod touch 1G. Those who own the newer iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch 2G/3G will have to wait just a little longer.  Apple has made cracking the 3.1 software a little more challenging. For the complete how... more.

With the release of iPhone OS v3.1 expected tomorrow in coordination with the Apple "It's only rock and roll, but we like it" event, the Dev Team has just updated their blog with a warning to all using a jail broken iPhone. If you update to Apple’s new software using the normal iTunes process, you will lose your ultrasn0w unlock.  In fact you may lose it permanently, because for most peopl... more.