shows picture of an iPhone 4/4s
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
194 points (90.4% liked)
Technology
58061 readers
31 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I mean probably the singular best model to date. When the retina screen dropped… wow. I miss Steve 🫶
Good phone aside from “you’re holding it wrong”
"If you have one"? What's the point of that insert?
To stop all the assholes coming in and haughtily talk about how they have an Android phone.
If you have an Android phone, you'll need to update it asap too because Google just released a security update for a zero-day vulnerability.
I misread the title and thought it said "You Need to Update Your Phone [if you have one], Right now", which I found quite strange, then started reading the post and was like "Hey, but I have an Android, do you assume everyone has an iPhone now?"... So here I am anyway.
I thought people stopped debating religion online, it seems very 2013
Clearly you aren't a programmer. I still have emacs users tell me how great it is that they have their garage door opener keybound to SUPER+CTRL+K+SPACE
We love to see sanity online folks.
You've been around long enough to know that won't stop them. I recognize your user name from Reddit.
I had to try.
True enough. We can only do what we can.
So the hacker hacks your phone with his mind?
At a very high level: the attacker sends a picture which somehow is opened by Apple Wallet and leads to the execution of arbitrary code (this is the vulnerability, in how the wallet parses the picture, allowing for a buffer overflow), deactivation of certain security features and download/execution of the malicious payload.
sure apple wallet is requierd for it to work? red it like the image part can come remotely by picture 0click (by link preview archived) or via using the wallet app, not both in conjunction.
What about iOS 17 Public Beta?
Anything published before today, while this was a zero-day, should be considered vulnerable.
Seeing as it’s not iOS 16, should be fine. But I’m sure they’d put a patch out for the beta if the risk was that high for it as well.
I’ve put my phone in lockdown mode until a new beta comes out. Not much functionality lost
I forgot about Lockdown Mode! Good idea!
No idea. I wouldn't trust it right now though.
There's no update for older iPhones or Macs yet.