Macworld 2010 is upon us, where numerous developers will be showing off the iPhone apps they’ve released and previewing what’s ahead. Appletell will be there to find the gems, but what about all the apps that won’t be there? There are a lot of great apps in the app store, but that doesn’t meant there couldn’t be even more. What kind, you may ask? Well how about…

There has been a lot of news lately on iPhone worms targeting those with jailbroken phones. These exploits take advantage of people with jailbroken iPhones using OpenSSH (which is available via Cydia) who don’t change their password for access as both a “root” (most powerful) and “mobile” (more restricted) user. Apple has never been friendly towards jailbreakers, and it seems they don’t even want to be bothered with it.

In what can only be described as a sign and/or portent right out of Revelations, it’s been discovered that iPhones have hidden barcodes on them. I mean, never mind that each one has a unique identifier anyway and Apple knows what songs you buy from it and what credit card you’re charging it to and can turn your applications off by remote if they want to, this is something to worry about because it’s kind of like something from the Matrix!

Ahem.

Thanks to a tipper on the MacRumors forums, we now know how to access the rest of your iPhone even when locked with a password.

The hack requires that you have iPhone 2.0.2 installed, and have at least one favorite in your contacts list.

Instructions (and now, new info on this security hole straight from Apple) after the break.

A recent career opening from Apple for a job entitled “iPhone Security Engineer” can only mean that Apple wants to improve the security on their iPhones. This full time job would have the employee working at Apple’s Cupertino office. What’s to be expected? The employee would have to “… validate the security architecture for the more »

New information shows that the new software coming out for the iPhone will make erasing all of your data more secure and trustworthy. If you’ll remember, the current version of the iPhone software has an option to “erase all contents and settings,” but some users found out the hard way that this might not be more »

Beware of the refurbished iPhone! An Oregon State Police officer tipped off an iPhone Atlas writer to an interesting little tidbit. The iPhone he had purchased from Apple’s refurbished department contained a large amount of sensitive information, including images, past emails, and upon further digging, found multiple documents including personal financial records and website profile more »