iPhones would be among the most vulnerable smartphones and would attract the attention of most hackers, conform a recently published study. It seems that the popularity of terminals among consumers, the closed system thought by Apple and the extremely high price of exploits would lead hackers to attack the Cupertino platform. The study is done by a company called SourceFire, it covers 25 years of vulnerabilities reported in two US national databases, and 81% of the vulnerabilities discovered in mobile platforms were reported for iOS.
According to SourceFire's "25 Years of Vulnerabilities" study released in early March, which analyzed vulnerabilities from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) data and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), the majority of mobile phone vulnerabilities have been found in Apple's iPhone. The database provides 25 years of information on vulnerabilities to assess, spanning from 1988. 210 vulnerabilities were found in Apple's smartphone, giving iOS 81 percent of the mobile phone vulnerability market share. This is more than the total number of vulnerabilities in Android-based, Windows-based and BlackBerry-based smartphones combined, at 19 percent.
Practically, the study only documents vulnerabilities reported by companies/users in the operating systems, and it would be interesting that in the case of iOS, the number of vulnerabilities increased from year to year, although Apple implements new security measures. This study contradicts another recently published by F-Secure and popularized by Phil Schiller, there the Android platform being "crowned" as the most vulnerable to attacks, all based on the fact that the system offers too much freedom to developers.
We will continue to see studies of this kind in the future, but until now the biggest problems have been in Android, where applications can exploit the operating system and its functions much more easily.
