Watch Out iPhone 2008!
12.11.07 - 04:33pm
Apple is surely hard at work to prevent any malicious malware attacks predicted for the upcoming 2008 season. According to Arbor Networks Security and Engineering Response Team (ASERT) the iPhone will be “the victim of a serious attack” this next year.
ASERT says this is due to the high public scrutiny the iPhone has received over it being “locked”. Hackers love a challenge and many will want to be the first to hack the iPhone says ASERT.
The iPhone will more than likely fall victim to viscous webpages or in messages sent, similar to attacks on PCs. “Assaults are likely to be in the form of … malware embedded into seemingly harmless information, images or other media that actually perform dangerous actions when rendered on the iPhone’s Web browser,” ASERT said.
“2007 was the year of the browser exploit, the data breach, spyware and the storm worm. We expect 2008 to be the year of the iPhone attack, the Chinese Hacker, P2P network spammers and the hijacking of the Storm botnet,” said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer at Arbor Networks.
ASERT says that as the Chinese are increasing their knowledge of cyber technology they are also increasing their “Chinese on Chinese” cybercrime. Should the iPhone get to China next year it will surely be a sought after target.
Speak Your Peace