Here's an interesting story about the second worm detected for Apple's iPhone platform. While the worm itself seems rather limited in its target audience (Dutch banking customers with a "jailbroken" iPhone running SSH with the default password), there are 2 interesting points here:
The first is that this worm enables the infected devices to act as a botnet. PC-based botnets have long been a problem on the Internet, but I am not aware of any other major platform to support a botnet until now.
The other point is that the popularity of the iPhone is making it a more desirable target for malware. I am not going to use this opportunity to take sides in the quasi-religious debate about the inherent security of Windows v. Mac v. Linux, but it does give some credence to the argument that Windows is not less secure than other operating systems but is simply targeted more due to its ubiquitous deployment.
To what degree does malware follow a platform's popularity? Time will tell.
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