The prediction that iPhone will have its tremendous popularity turned against it as it become a certain target for hackers in the following year, has spread quite rapidly.
Cybercrime will have a new victim in 2008, IT security company Arbor Networks stated on Tuesday. According to ZDNET.co.uk Arbor anticipated "drive-by attacks" as being a potential threat for this mobile device and explained further on how these attacks work as malware implanted in frequently used information, such as images, which then may lead to treacherous actions when rendered in the iPhone's web browser.
Since iPhone has made such a noise within the past year, researchers think that this in itself will attract hackers to try their “skills” on this new fertile and virgin territory.
Reportedly, a team of US security researchers declared back in July that they have come up with two exploits which can cause great damage to the design and security performance on the phone.
However, as a Gartner analyst told us to expect, Apple may release an enterprise-class version of the iPhone to better suit the conditions of a corporate environment.
New dangers in 2008 Warnings on 'Chinese on Chinese' cybercrime coming strongly from behind have been also issued. The security firm has emphasized the terrible increase in attacks on software designed for Chinese language.
As ComputerWorld informs us, Arbor Networks predicted 2008 to have as main targets for hackers -- iPhone , P2P networks, the Chinese software and the Storm botnet. Jose Nazario, senior security engineer at Arbor Networks outlined the wide spread of online crime now due to its increasingly “sophisticated ways to both steal and launder money”, ways which will only be perfected in 2008 by those involved in online fraud.
