iPhone a Malware Magnet?

We were all ready to nominate "iPhone to be target of hackers in 2008" for the Most Clueless Use of Future Tense in 2007 award, but it turns out the security folk quoted therein mean "hacker" in the pejorative sense. The Security and Engineering Response Team at Arbor Networks predicts the iPhone will become an increasingly common target for "drive-by attacks,' in which bad people embed malware in seemingly harmless Web pages. According to their report:

With the scrutiny the iPhone has received since its launch earlier this year over network lock-in, ASERT believes that hackers will be enticed by the possibility of attacking Apple users and the opportunity to ‘be the first’ to hack a new platform.

Geez, what kind of twisted mind would deliberately concoct software that could turn your Precious into a useless lump of semi-toxic whatnot?

Report: iPhone to be target of hackers in 2008[MacCentral]