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First iPhone worm leaves users "Rickrolled"

(NOTE: "Rickrolling" is an Internet term for fooling a person into clicking on a click that appears to be relevant to the topic at hand, but actually takes you to a 1987 Rick Astley video for the song "Never Gonna Give You Up.")

 The first worm written for Apple's iPhone has been unleashed and is infecting phones in Australia.

However, the worm, known as Ikee, is only a threat to users who have "jailbroken" their phones to let them run unauthorized software, security experts say.

In fact, Ikee doesn't do anything particularly bad -- it changes the victim's wallpaper to a photograph of 80s singer Rick Astley and then seeks out other phones to infect -- but it could be modified to do something more dangerous such as stealing sensitive information from the iPhone. "There is a real danger that someone could take this code and make it do something malicious," said Graham Cluley, a technology consultant with security vendor Sophos.

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