IPods targeted by obscure Linux virus
As threats go this one is very small but the target happens to be one of the biggest in the digital world -- someone has finally got round to writing an iPod virus.
This one is as obscure as the iPod is famous. Called 'Podloso' by its discoverers, Kaspersky Lab, the virus is rated as a proof-of-concept virus, which means that it has been created with the intention of testing out programming techniques for attacking the music player to see how they fare under real-world conditions. So far, the concept has been proven in only one respect, that of gaining attention.
The other qualification is that Podloso requires the user to be running Linux on the iPod, which increases its obscurity severalfold. It also has no payload, is rated by Kaspersky as unstable and difficult to run, and requires determined user interaction to do anything at all.
