Apple’s proactive approach to malware is focused on prevention, while Google’s plan is apparently to encourage creation of apps and deal with the problems as they occur, in reactive mode, which the professor says from a security perspective creates exactly the kind of environment in which malware gangs feel comfortable.

A second worm affecting jailbroken iPhones has been discovered, this one specifically targeting users of Dutch bank ING. It redirects users to a lookalike login page, presumably to steal their login information. Now, before everyone freaks out about iPhones being used for bank robbery, keep in mind that—like the previous iPhone worm—the user has to have SSH installed, and they can’t have changed the default SSH password.