Posted on 11/06/2014 10:14:15 AM PST by for-q-clinton
For most of the iPhone's lifespan, it's been effectively immune to malware. There were theoretical attacks and viruses targeting jailbroken phones, but thanks to the tight controls of the App Store, finding iOS malware in the wild has been nearly impossible. If you didn't jailbreak your phone and you werent targeted by the NSA, you simply didn't have to worry about catching a virus.
Yesterday, that changed. A security firm called Palo Alto Networks discovered a malware program theyre calling Wirelurker, which sneaks into computers through unauthorized Chinese apps, then attacks iOS devices when they connect over USB. Its an obscure line of attack (whens the last time you actually plugged your iPhone into your computer?), confined to China, and so far the effects have been minimal. The actual payload for non-jailbroken phones was just a test balloon, side-loading a comic book app to prove the attack really worked. Jailbroken phones got a nastier payload, infecting payment apps, but that's to be expected. Last night, Apple blocked the apps, saying "We are aware of malicious software available from a download site aimed at users in China, and weve 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. Still, that doesn't mean Apple is completely in the clear. The vulnerabilities exploited by Wirelurker will be around for much longer, and could pose a serious threat to Apple's otherwise spotless record. Now that the platform has had its first real virus scare, there's reason to think it won't be the last.
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Not at all. I am saying that Apple leaves you with their approved security choices ONLY and not apple lets you at least try to find your own or code them yourself.
Am I wrong?
Mother of them all
http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/
[and I’m sure there’s no correlation between “apple” and that snake in the garden]
;D
Just amazes me. Their leader was trying to sell Macs as a gaming platform last night over a PC because of the new Retina display.
They brook nothing but total praise. It’s like an Occupy Free Republic chapter meeting.
The iOS device is infected when plugged into an infected OS-X device by USB.
The infected Mac can infect your iPhone/Pad/Pod.
I’m just understand the cyber world doesn’t have the same level of feedback that normally keeps mildly “off” people such as yourself in check.
Whether you understand it or not, your obsession is embarrassing to it’s innocent victims even if it’s not to you.
Source: The Verge
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No bias here. Anti-Apple ills and their counterparts continue to grasping. As if any Apple user though the iOS was “perfect”.
“So, if you go outside of Apples walled garden to get apps from an untrusted source, you might get malware? Thanks for the newsflash.”
Precisely.
:^D
So in short, this is a feelings thing for you.
Seriously?
They’re usually too underpowered for that, IMO.
Now, an Alienware gaming rig would be *sweet*.
Just hook it up to a nice, big IPS monitor.
bookmarked!
many thanks....
Actually, more of a social thing.
That’s a two-edged statement, you know.
True believer Mac fans scare me.
There’s a bunch more sites of the same general thing but often, they’re just reruns of what gets posted there, first.
*Epic* time-waster site.
:)
I was told I can’t tale my gaming righ to a park to play modded Slyrim.
Because when I kill dragons and rescue princesses, I apparently need to have portability over frame rate. I was also informed that a $2000 dollar rig is an expensive computer. Imagine my bewilderment that a simmilar equipped MacPro is closer to 6K. Nut it can make a cup of coffie instead of having triple SLI video cards on a PCI. bus.
Sorry. I lied. I can buy a $1000 PCI3 chassis to hook a 70 dollar thunderbolt cable to it then add the video cards. Except no one makes drivers.
Math is a funny thing.
So?
And as others have stated, the root of the problem is a PC running iTunes; not iOS. I have not heard if the same venerability exists on a Mac running iTunes or not.
Your fear of the NSA (which you assume you can manage to avoid on Android) opens you up to the identity thieves big time.
The point I am making is that Apple removes the very choice to do that.
I don't believe in such an animal. I've never seen one anywhere but the anecdotes of questionable sources.
As far as I'm concerned, they are a fairy tale the greasy, showerless, dateless, socially outcast, inferiority obsessed, geeks of the seventies invented to justify their pathological need to injurer "cool" people.
From there, it just became accepted lore as such people became successes and, for the most part, got their $h!t together.
My Alienware laptops run games really well.
But I don’t play games so it’s all lost on me.
I hate math.
It’s always expecting *me* to solve its problems.
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