iPhone Success Begets iPhone Malware

Got an iPhone? Get ready for iPhone trojans. The first one's ringing in now.

Keith Ferrell, Contributor

January 10, 2008

1 Min Read

Got an iPhone? Get ready for iPhone trojans. The first one's ringing in now.The iPhone trojan masquerades as a firmware upgrade, leading security pros including United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) to advise iPhoners to accept downloads only from official sources. (Advice that can't be given often enough, isn't taken often enough, and applies to far more than iPhones.)

Interesting -- and scary -- sidelight to the Trojan is that its creator is evidently an 11 year old kid. Who says there's no hope for the technical skills of today's youth?

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