Popularity has its drawbacks. As the iPhone and the Mac gain in popularity, hackers are starting to take notice.
Part of the reason for increased popularity of Macintosh computers is that Apple has made the machines friendlier to running programs popular on Windows-based machines.
Hackers experienced with attacking Windows programs can apply some of their know-how to software modified to run on Macintosh computers.
Developers that re-craft Windows programs for Macintosh systems might not be adept at building security components on the latest Leopard operating system used in Apple machines.
Windows developers take their code and make it work on Apple,” Hotchkies said. “They could take potential vulnerabilities with them or possibly create new ones because they are working on an entirely different platform.”
I haven’t heard about any zero-day exploits to the iPhone yet (as long as you don’t count jailbreaking), but I’m sure they’re on the way. Read the article here.
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