how can an iPhone be so hard to hack when entire banking systems and other massive companies can be successfully targeted?
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There are a number of reasons:
– many of these banks and institutions don’t spend enough on securing their data networks, they often have lots of old software running that is vulnerable to attack. Modern phones by comparison were designed recently with security built in from day 1
– For the ones which haven’t left the barn door open, by having internet connected Win98 machines sitting in bedroom closets, they also have lots of ill trained staff, who are susceptible to social engineering… That’s how Sony got hacked…
– there is a huge difference in scale between securing a phone and securing a bank – kinda like comparing a home security system to border security… Big organisations have lots of points of contact (ATMs/PoS terminals, employee laptops/phones, websites etc)
– the value of breaking into a big company or bank is much greater, so attackers will spend more (time/money/effort) to get in
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