Do you own an iPhone?
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iPhone security hack
A truly horrendous zero-day exploit has been revealed which targets the iPhone. Apple has issued an emergency update to correct it and advises all iPhone users to update immediately. The latest...
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Yes I do. Is this a poll or something?
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@kt_ said in Do you own an iPhone?:
Yes I do. Is this a poll or something?
More of a PSA. Hope you've updated!
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The article repeatedly says that any spyware that can exploit this bug is "expensive", which leads me to believe the author of the article has no idea how software of any kind works.
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@ben_lubar said in Do you own an iPhone?:
The article repeatedly says that any spyware that can exploit this bug is "expensive", which leads me to believe the author of the article has no idea how software of any kind works.
Well, it was expensive.
Now that the patch is publicly available, it'll be pretty easy to reverse engineer it and figure out the bug though.
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This is the first known remote jailbreak of a iPhone. According to researchers at Citizen Lab, it was discovered when human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor received a text message on his phone promising "new secrets" about detainees tortured in United Arab Emirates jails if he clicked on links included in the message. Mansoor, who has been targeted with spyware attacks twice before, became suspicious and sent the message to Citizen Lab.
The researchers say that if Mansoor had clicked on the links, which led to a series of zero-day exploits, sophisticated spyware would have been installed on his phone and what could have happened next is terrifying:
Once infected, Mansoor’s phone would have become a digital spy in his pocket, capable of employing his iPhone’s camera and microphone to snoop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording his WhatsApp and Viber calls, logging messages sent in mobile chat apps, and tracking his movements.
These hackers must be so pissed right now. They find the perfect 0day exploit, and they screw it up like this.
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@sloosecannon said in Do you own an iPhone?:
Well, it was expensive.
Sounds like it was paid for by someone's “public” payroll. Unclear which government as yet.
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@anotherusername These exploits work against iOS 7, fwiw.
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@flabdablet and I'll be sure to upgrade just as soon as they release an update that works on my iPhone.
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@anotherusername Complain about it to Applecare!
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@masonwheeler hiPhone. byePhone.
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Do you own an iPhone?
No, iPhone owns you
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@anotherusername said in Do you own an iPhone?:
@flabdablet and I'll be sure to upgrade just as soon as they release an update that works on my iPhone.
Only iPhone 4S and newer get updates. As much as I dislike Apple, that's 5 years of support which is better than any Android device I know.
Of course, my 8 year old computer is running Windows 10 without a problem and I expect it to last at least 5 more years, but hey, mobile is different™.
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@anonymous234 said in Do you own an iPhone?:
Only iPhone 4S and newer get updates. As much as I dislike Apple, that's 5 years of support which is better than any Android device I know.
If Apple would unlock the older unsupported phone so you can install whatever OS you like in it, I could agree with you.
Until they do that, I will only buy Nexus devices since these are usually supported longer.
Once Google stop supporting it, I can install CyanogenMod.
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@TimeBandit said in Do you own an iPhone?:
Until they do that, I will only buy Nexus devices since these are usually supported longer.
Once Google stop supporting it, I can install CyanogenMod.You could cut out the middle-man and get phones by OnePlus.
Stop What You're Doing and Update Your iPhone Right Now
