Wednesday 8 August 2012

Change ROOT Password of iPhone


History:
        Sometime back a German hacker wrote that he had hacked several Iphone on T-mobile Germany with some simple tools from his PC. He scanned the T-Mobile 3g IP range, and he got like thousands of IP with the SSH port open (port 22). Then using a simple SSH client such as putty, he got connected to them with the default Iphone room password which is:
Username: root
Password: alpine 

Steps:

1. Install 'Mobile Terminal' application from Cydia

2. Type without quotes “passwd” and press return

3. Will prompt you to enter the old password, so type the default iPhone password - alpine


4. Now it will prompt you to write a news password. Press return when you’ll finish.

5. You will have to confirm the chosen password once again, so enter it and press return.
That’s all your safe.


Another way to protect is to disable the SSH on your jailbroken iPhone. You can do this also very easily from SB setting using the SSH togles. If you cant see it on your screen, go to SBSettings option and configure it to display the SSH toggle.


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