Warning Issued For Apple's 1.4 Billion iPad And iPhone Users (Article Forbes, unsure if issue)

Forbes ^ | August 10, 2019 | Gordon Kelley

[cba123]

Apple is having a bad week. Just days after Face ID was hacked and the company’s “user-hostile” iPhone battery practices were exposed, an extraordinary story of Apple neglect has resulted in a warning every iPhone and iPad user needs to know about.

Picked up by AppleInsider, security firm Check Point has revealed it has found a way to hack every iPhone and iPad running iOS 8 right up to betas of iOS 13. This spread covers eight years of devices (iOS 8 supports the 2011 iPhone 4S) and, with Tim Cook stating there are 1.4BN active iOS devices around the world, this is worrying news for the owners of pretty much all of them.

(later goes on to say not vulnerable right now, could be in the future)

[cba123]

Interesting, but not entirely sure this is a real issue at the moment.

Also noting, isn't Forbes magazine now owned by Chinese?

Big, big potential conflict there.

[cba123]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/08/10/apple-iphone-ipad-security-warning-ios-12-ios13-iphone-xs-max-xr/amp/

[TADSLOS]

Ping.

[ctdonath2]

later goes on to say not vulnerable right now, could be in the future

How convenient to mention several paragraphs in after the hysteria and click bait.

[MountainWalker]

Swordmaker and Rush hardest hit.

[Perseverando]

How convenient to mention several paragraphs in after the hysteria and click bait.

Oh wow, just in time! I was already in the process of tearing my bed sheets in strips. Jeffrey, wait for me! /sarc

[IncPen]

For now, the saving grace is hackers need access to your unlocked iPhone or iPad to exploit it but this may change.

The fakest of fake news.

As a comparison, someone may be able to steal my car if I leave it unlocked and running in a bad neighborhood.

Go back in your holes, Apple haters, this one’s a turd.

[House Atreides]

Swordmaker and Rush hardest hit.
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This was FIXED for Apple products by updated software in May BEFORE THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the possible security problem. You can’t say the same for Android and other OS based devices.

[PAR35]

Also noting, isn't Forbes magazine now owned by Chinese?

Don't know about Forbes, but Apple components are made in China. So they probably contain the best features that the People's Liberation Army can devise.

[itsahoot]

Don't know about Forbes, but Apple components are made in China.

So is every other phone maker's.

[mass55th]

They can hack my iPhone all they want. I don’t use it for anything other than making a rare phone call. I hate the damn thing, and would never access anything important on it. I don’t even know how people can play games, or watch TV/movies on them.

[MrEdd]

“Exposed?”

Phone tech sites had reverse engineered iPhones a decade ago, and warned about this.

The battery issue wasn’t just now discovered.
Rather, they did it to enough people that they reached a tipping point and now the customer base is paying attention.

Apple never had any super secret unduplicatable technology which other people couldn’t and didn’t analyze accurately.

[MrEdd]

True enough.

[Celtic Conservative]

I do samsung, not an apple fanboi.

CC

[Swordmaker]

Forbes FUD article about a long closed vulnerability in iOS that required physical access to a users UNLOCKED iOS device to be able to exploit it. Absolutely nothing to see here except a major magazine’s opening salvo in the early weeks of FUD SEASON! —PING!

FORBES FUD FOR APPLE FUD SEASON
PING!

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

[Swordmaker]

The Forbes article pushes this FUD howler from last month as well:

After all, just last month six flaws were found in iMessage which allowed hackers to read your files from anywhere and one of them remains unpatched to this day.

That iMessage vulnerability ONLY permitted exposure of some portions of images which were limited to any images the user had messaged recently to the current addressee of the iMessage the user was currently sending. It would also reveal the phone number of the of the user, but that’s already sent in the clear with any messaging system for the use of the carrier. It did NOT allow access to any texts, other data, or anything else on the device. . . Even the text currently being sent. In addition, it could not be exploited “from anywhere” but only from a local exploit where the iMessage was being sent over a compromised WIFI signal where the hacker was sharing the WIFI with the target and had to know the target was sending an iMessage. This was just more FUD.

Apple had already closed these vulnerabilities when they were announced. The unpatched vulnerability requires physical possession of an unlocked device. Not a serious vulnerability capable of ad hoc exploitation.

SHEESH! Talk about FUD Loading their article.

[Revel]

Conservatives buy Apple. Apple supports the democrats with lots of money.

[Swordmaker]

Thanks for the ping, TADSLOS.

[Swordmaker]

Don't know about Forbes, but Apple components are made in China. So they probably contain the best features that the People's Liberation Army can devise.

Uh, no. Apple components are manufactured in almost 50 different countries including the USA. They are just assembled in China under Apple employees’ watchful eyes at a Taiwanese owned assembly plant.

[MountainWalker]

Lighten up, Francis.