[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!

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[Mortimer St. Hubbins]

Thanks, Swordmaker. Always providing reliable info. compared to the BS being circulated and perpetrated by people who’ll cite liberal activist sources.