1.) Most proof of concept hack code for iPhone can only work against a jail broken iPhone.
- For security, do not jailbreak an iPhone!
2.) A user has to download a hacker application from the App Store, provide their password, and install it on their iPhone to be vulnerable.
- This is a huge difference from a PC virus, where for example you are using a normal email client, and just by reading email the user gets a virus!
3.) Corporate issued iPhones can be controlled by corporate security policy forbidding the user to install iPhone Apps
- Apple’s off the shelf iPhone security controls for the enterprise require in-house customization and enhancement to be effective
- For personally owned iPhones, as in all technology, scrutinize what you install!
4.) PC’s can get software from anywhere and anybody, iPhones can ONLY get software from the App store or for Enterprises additionally through their corporate server.
- This is where Apple’s iPhone paradigm of complete control that many people do not like, could actually be the remedy, in a technically enforced remediation/blacklist.
5.) iPhones will have vulnerabilities as in most technology, but iPhone vulnerabilities will not scale or have long term impact similar to Windows viruses and worms.
- iPhone is a limited, non-multitasking, non-general use computing technology that can be controlled, and Apple has tremendous financial interest in controlling it.
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