[for-q-clinton]

Uh oh. Apple is slipping. First OSX getting malware and now the iPhone!

[Norm Lenhart]

Someone will be here to explain it all away...

[papertyger]

FReeper, please....

[John W]

The money quote:

“...when’s the last time you actually plugged your iPhone into your computer?”

[kevkrom]

So, if you go outside of Apple’s “walled garden” to get apps from an untrusted source, you might get malware? Thanks for the newsflash.

[VanDeKoik]

Well those people will have to learn how not to be dumb with smartphones.

Good luck with that.

[House Atreides]

A security firm ... discovered a malware program they’re calling Wirelurker, which sneaks into computers through UNAUTHORIZED CHINESE APPS, then attacks iOS devices when they connect over USB. It’s an obscure line of attack (when’s the last time you actually plugged your iPhone into your computer?), CONFINED TO CHINA, and so far the EFFECTS HAVE BEEN MINIMAL. ... LAST NIGHT, APPLE BLOCKED THE APPS, saying “We are aware of malicious software available from a download site aimed at users in China, and we’ve blocked the identified apps to prevent them from launching. As always, we recommend that users download and install software from trusted sources.” Less than 24 hours after Palo Alto Networks published its report, Wirelurker appears to be mostly wiped out.”
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Oh noes!!!! I’m going to have to stop loading unauthorized Chinese Apps into my iMac followed by connecting my iPhone to the iMac over USB.

Oh wait ... I never do that anyhow. Geez, I don’t know anybody who does that.

[molson209]

I do not trust any Smart Phone or Tablet

[Amendment10]

Since the OP mentions USB ports in conjunction with “iPhone” security problems, it has already been noted on this message board that there is an unfixable security problem in the design of USB ports.

FR: Undetectable, Unpatchable USB-infecting malware is now publically available for anyone to use

I suspect that hackers are actually exploiting this USB port problem with respect to iPhone.

[5thGenTexan]

"unauthorized Chinese app"

In other words, "bypass the security measures of the Apple ecosystem and lose the security levels in the Apple ecosystem ".

Which is quite different from getting malware from apps in the phone manufacturer's App Store, like with Google Play.

[Chgogal]

Ping-a-Ling!

[Nifster]

not really. When did you EVER connect to wifi via a USB adapter????? This is exclusively a Chinese problem

[Chgogal]

Yesterday, that changed. A security firm called Palo Alto Networks discovered a malware program they’re calling Wirelurker, which sneaks into computers through unauthorized Chinese apps, then attacks iOS devices when they connect over USB. It’s an obscure line of attack (when’s the last time you actually plugged your iPhone into your computer?), confined to China, and so far the effects have been minimal.

I don't think most of us use “unauthorized Chinese apps” BUT Apple does have to get on top of this.

[Fresh Wind]

[glock rocks]

The iOS device is infected when plugged into an infected OS-X device by USB.

The infected Mac can infect your iPhone/Pad/Pod.

http://news.yahoo.com/malware-infect-iphones-via-mac-computers-163353319.html;_ylt=AwrBJR8drVtUSEEAf7rQtDMD

[Mortimer St. Hubbins]

Source: The Verge

The Verge operated by network media Vox Media

Vox Media: Created by environmental activist and liberal political strategist Jerome Armstrong

No bias here. Anti-Apple ills and their counterparts continue to grasping. As if any Apple user though the iOS was “perfect”.

[Swordmaker]

A Computer Security company claims to have discovered a TWO-FER, A malware that both requires the ability to somehow be secretly infecting OS X Macs Without being noticed by anyone but them (which means getting around Apple's anti-malware system, as well as a dozen other commercially available companies 's systems constantly seeking invasive malware in THEIR labs and the claim is this has been in the wild since June? Sound familiar? Something like the Dr. Web MacBot hoax that no one ever found a member of in the wild?) and then waits unti the infected users plug in their iPhones and iPads and THEN steal data from iOS device. It seems to me to be an awfully round about way to steal data that will be most likely already backed-up to the computer anyway, if anyone DOES that USB thing anymore. Ask yourself, how many iPhone users still hook their iPhones and iPads to their computers anymore since over-the-air updating and WIFI backups have been the mainstay?

All this comes out of CHINA? When just this week it was reported that the Apple iPhone supplanted Samsung Galaxies as the top selling smart phone in CHINA? I smell the ugly aroma of FUD in the morning.

Palo Alto said a developer at Tencent Holdings Ltd. 0700, -0.32% first made note of the threat in June, and then threads on Apple forums started popping up, in which device users noted the installation of strange applications and the creation of enterprise provisioning profiles.

I assure you that had iOS device users reported such events before this, there would have been an outcry that would have been deafening! Look at the outrage over Apple making a free U2 Album available for download that required users to actually install it and think how people would react vocally to finding unknown installed apps and profiles on their iPhones and iPads, It simply has not been happening. The original article itself says it has not been used, nor do they know how it can be used.

In my opinion, for the reasons stated, This is FUD.—PING!

Apple Security FUD Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[TexasGunLover]

Crapple’s iPhone never had a perfect record. It’s been compromised at every Black Hat since its creation. Only the iSheep think it’s a well designed device.

[TheBattman]

What OS X malware? Have never seen one “in the wild”, at least none that didn’t require the user install it himself, giving permission to do its deed...

Then again - I don’t just hand over my house keys to any stranger off the street...