Iphone is hackers' fave target for 2008

HACKERS WILL target the Iphone in 2008, an insecurity outfit warned.

Arbor Network's Security and Engineering Response Team (ASERT) reckons the phone will become "the victim of a serious attack" in 2008.

According to the firm, webbed assaults are likely to be in the form of drive-by attacks – malware embedded into seemingly harmless information, images or other media that actually perform dangerous actions when rendered on the Iphone's browser.

Arbor dares suggest hackers will be enticed by the attraction of being first to crack a new platform.

"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.

As, we imagine, he rubbed his hands together and dribbled down his chin, thinking about all the money he may make in 2008 through such scaremongering. µ