Our guide to your life: this week, a few tech tips can quickly reunite you with your BlackBerry or iPhone. You’ve lost your most prized possession: your mobile device. Don’t write it off just yet. We explain what to do when your cellphone goes missing.

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DO you have nightmares about your iPhone being stolen or lost? Fear not, there are apps that will track and display your phone’s location on a map, remotely trigger an alarm and send a curt warning to the would-be thief.

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Two years ago, security researchers showed the Black Hat security conference how hackers could exploit vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari web browser on the iPhone to steal your data or another exploit to send text messages or turn of the microphone to eavesdrop on you.

The first exploit required the iPhone owner to visit a website. Another exploit was triggered via a maliciously formed text message. Now, a malicious worm is biting its way through Apple’s iPhones.

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Another week, another worm hitting jailbroken iPhones. As with the previous exploits, which Rickrolled your phone’s wallpaper and stole your data, this nasty piece of work burrows its way into your jailbroken device if you haven’t changed the password for the iPhone’s root account—you have changed your root password, right? Right?

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The second worm to infect jailbroken iPhone users reportedly targets customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct.

Surfers visiting the site with infected devices are redirected to a phishing site designed to harvest online banking login details, the BBC reports. ING Direct told the BBC it planned to warn users’ of the attack via its website, as well as briefing front line call centre staff on the threat.

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Cisco launched an iPhone application Friday aimed at helping corporate security managers respond to threats on-the-go.
Aimed squarely at enterprise IT departments, the app is networked to Cisco’s Security Intelligence Operations to enable users to receive realtime notifications of attacks on a corporate network.

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The bloke who released the first iPhone virus from his home in Wollongong did not think he would get death threats, media interviews or job offers. Ashley Towns, 21, said that he got all three in one day after an audacious viral security “experiment” got out of hand.

“I was reading a blog that said in bold letters to change your passwords and I wondered how many had. The problem was that most of the people on his network had not,” said Towns.

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Following the recent discovery of a worm that changes wallpaper on iPhones, Intego has spotted another piece of malware that attacks iPhones, one that is far more dangerous than the ikee worm. This hacker tool, which Intego identifies as iPhone/Privacy.A, takes advantage of the same vulnerability in the iPhone as the ikee worm, allowing hackers to connect to any jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch (iPhones or iPod touches hacked to allow installation of software other than through iTunes) whose owners have not changed the root password.

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A 21-year-old Australian man has admitted creating what is thought to be the first virus to infect Apple iPhones.

The virus, which can spread from phone to phone, changes the iPhone’s wallpaper to a photograph of 1980s singer Rick Astley - best known for his hit Never Gonna Give You Up.

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One Dutch hacker managed to find and hack into jailbroken iPhones, though it seems the hacker was more interested in a few euros than malicious ends. However, the incident is another reminder that users of jailbroken iPhones need to be more vigilant about security.

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I admit, sometimes I forget the iPhone is a phone. When a couple voicemails didn’t show up recently, I thought nothing of it until a friend asked me if I’d gotten his message—people just don’t call me that often. But a phone it is, as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app they’ve downloaded from the App Store.

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Citing a source within Apple, Gizmodo stated that the fix will likely come in iPhone OS 3.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The problem, first discovered by Cult of Mac, happens when a user attempts to delete an e-mail. Even after emptying the Mail application’s trash, the message—and all of its contents—are still accessible through the phone’s Spotlight search feature.

To test the flaw, delete a message within the iPhone’s Mail software. Remove it from the trash, and check your mail server (IMAP and POP both reportedly work) to ensure it’s erased. Then, search for the subject line of the message in Spotlight, where, in many cases, the entire message can still be read.

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