Malware attacks on iPhone and others inevitable, says expert |
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Consumers' eyes and attention are keenly fixed on how to crack open the eye-candy iPhone ever since Apple launched it this year. And to tell you the truth, a lot of homebrew applications have been appearing lately showcasing the mobile phone's flexibility and functionality.Experts, however, warn consumers that this may lead to complex mobile attacks in the future much like the problems PC users are facing right now. Anti-virus Research Director Mikko Hypponen from computer security service provider F-Secure had this to say:
The amount of hype around the iPhone is pretty unbelievable, so it's a given that people will continue to play around with it and find ways around the security features of the phone. It's quite likely that we'll see iPhone malware sooner or later.
The director further explained that despite having a Bluetooth function, the anticipated malware are expected to spread through email because iPhone doesn't use the chip for file transmission. He added that other smart phones based on the OS Symbian have a lot to worry in the future. Hypponen added:
We've seen a little over 370 different examples of malware running on smart phone platforms. Almost all of them target Symbian-based phones, because Symbian is by far the market leader, with over half the smart phones in the world running that operating system.
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um.... yeah so what. Any person who owns any kind of technology should be wary of these problems. I don't see how this is news.