You Need to Update Your iPhone [if you have one], Right Now (gizmodo.com)
from FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 13:31
https://lemmy.world/post/4674072

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Absolutemehperson@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 14:09 next collapse

So the hacker hacks your phone with his mind?

TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip on 08 Sep 2023 14:25 collapse

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.

p_q@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 2023 09:01 collapse

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.

hellfire103@sopuli.xyz on 08 Sep 2023 14:33 next collapse

What about iOS 17 Public Beta?

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 14:43 next collapse

No idea. I wouldn’t trust it right now though.

BaronVonBort@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 15:11 next collapse

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.

HeartyBeast@kbin.social on 08 Sep 2023 16:04 next collapse

I’ve put my phone in lockdown mode until a new beta comes out. Not much functionality lost

hellfire103@sopuli.xyz on 09 Sep 2023 07:22 collapse

I forgot about Lockdown Mode! Good idea!

sebinspace@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 22:28 collapse

Anything published before today, while this was a zero-day, should be considered vulnerable.

RoToRa@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Sep 2023 16:41 next collapse

“If you have one”? What’s the point of that insert?

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 17:18 collapse

To stop all the assholes coming in and haughtily talk about how they have an Android phone.

NoRodent@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 17:37 next collapse

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.

redcalcium@lemmy.institute on 08 Sep 2023 18:57 next collapse

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.

sebinspace@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 21:19 next collapse

I thought people stopped debating religion online, it seems very 2013

HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl on 09 Sep 2023 09:26 next collapse

We love to see sanity online folks.

tdawg@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 2023 16:50 collapse

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

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca on 09 Sep 2023 15:16 collapse

You’ve been around long enough to know that won’t stop them. I recognize your user name from Reddit.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 2023 15:17 collapse

I had to try.

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca on 09 Sep 2023 15:20 collapse

True enough. We can only do what we can.

Bipta@kbin.social on 08 Sep 2023 17:02 next collapse

There's no update for older iPhones or Macs yet.

Resol@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 17:03 next collapse

shows picture of an iPhone 4/4s

ultratiem@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 2023 19:56 collapse

I mean probably the singular best model to date. When the retina screen dropped… wow. I miss Steve 🫶

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2023 20:45 collapse

Good phone aside from “you’re holding it wrong”

ultratiem@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 2023 21:29 collapse

You know. That was a lot of nothing. My buddies BB did it. Worse. He dropped totally cupping his phone.

But how Steve handled it was amazing. I was happy with my new phone. And free bumper. And not a dropped call.

I think the scuffgate on the 5 was waaaaaayyy worse. Literally every phone they were cracking open had dings. Like bad ones. That kicked up a lot less dust than I felt it should

Psythik@lemm.ee on 09 Sep 2023 00:23 collapse

It was not a “lot of nothing”. You’d literally lose service completely if you held the phone the way everyone holds a small phone. Your palm would bridge the two connections on the exterior antenna and there goes your signal.

Instead of properly addressing the issue, Jobs instead blamed the customers for being normal people.

tdawg@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 2023 16:48 collapse

I had a 4 in HS (and so did a couple of my friends) so maybe my baby kid hands didn’t have an issue with this but I don’t recall people having this concern?

Psythik@lemm.ee on 10 Sep 2023 04:59 collapse

Might have to do with the fact that most people put a case on their phones, but I can assure you that it was a legit issue for the few who don’t. I remember it happening to my best friend’s phone.

xtapa@feddit.de on 09 Sep 2023 08:07 collapse

Phew, I just started looking for my iPhone I don’t have. Brackets saved my sanity.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 2023 08:17 next collapse

Thanks for proving exactly why I put them there in the first place. So people wouldn’t come in here gloating about how they didn’t have one.

thrawn@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 2023 08:17 collapse

The text in the brackets was added to prevent comments similar to this, but life finds a way