14 DAY TRIAL // The iPhone is a smartphone released by Apple that integrates phone, music player, camera, text messaging and Internet browsing capabilities, all in a single unit! Sounds like a lot of features for a small gadget, and of course, when something has a lot of capabilities there are more chances for malware creators to find ways of exploitation.
As I've read on E-Commerce Times, researchers have stated their worries about the fact that with doing so much more than communicating and entertaining, the iPhone could be insecure. These phones are running on platforms such as Symbian, Palm or Windows Mobile, their developers providing SDKs to third-party vendors so that they can create compatible applications. There is nothing abnormal about this, but do take into consideration that if hackers get their hands on these programs, they could use them to create malware in order to compromise one's phone.
And just think about the personal data that one of these little gadgets contains. Phishing from one of them would just be great for hackers, that's why they are trying to find some vulnerabilities to exploit. As seen on the same website I mentioned above, one of the applications the iPhone uses contains one of the vulnerabilities that exist in the beta version of Apple's Safari 3 browser. If successfully exploited, this flaw would allow the malicious user to remotely assume control of Safari 3 to execute code of choice. This certainly does not sound well!
A friend recently said to me: "If I find anyone messing around with my computer I just pull out the Internet cable and then do what I can to solve the problems I have, while staying offline". So I was thinking, if someone could get total control of your iPhone, things could get a lot more complicated than with a computer...