Most Sophisticated iPhone Hack Ever Exploited Apple's Hidden Hardware Feature
Most Sophisticated iPhone Hack Ever Exploited Apple's Hidden Hardware Feature
Kaspersky discovers the "most sophisticated attack chain" targeting Apple iOS devices.
Hidden hardware feature.
Not a backdoor at all.
55Why am I hearing about iPhone attacks so much recently? But none on android?
25I think it's mostly just been this one hack that keeps getting reported on because of how impressive it was. Apparently people are still discovering noteworthy things about it.
Not that there aren't others. Software is ever-moving. This one has just been especially interesting.
33It can often be more important to inform apple users of attacks and exploits because android users aren't often under the illusion that they're immune from such happenings.
10Yeah I feel like safe browsing practices and digital hygiene should be taught in middle schools. That's the age I was taught things about computers in the early 2000s, like how to use a word processor, do research, save to floppy disks, not visit shady websites, and don't click on ads. People just assume all that malware has been scrubbed from the Internet by now, but it has not.
9Power users, sure. But the average Samsung user is just as ignorant as the average Apple user.
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Probably because this is @technology, where everyone is obsessed with apple because they would never use it.
8Android is open source so thousands of people have eyes on the source code and can find security holes. iOS (along with everything else Apple does) is closed source, so only they can review the code. This makes Linux based devices inherently more secure. Also, a lot of prominent people have iPhones so they're the targets of attack.
5Android is compromised by design. It’s not newsworthy.
-28Would you provide a reputable source please?
7Troll...
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I have to say, while not a huge fan of apple…
Most of these hacks I’ve seen seem to have long been patched out.
I still feel iPhones are largely more secure overall even if simply because on average I’m pretty confident the fleet of iPhones in use are using much more up to date software than android devices.
14Wrong. According to the companies who pay for iOS and Android exploits in other to make tools like Pegasus, they say it is far harder to get a working android exploit than it is too get a working iOS exploit and as a result they pay more for Android exploits because ios exploits are far more common.
Why is this? Because Google has an Android security team that actively seeks exploits and patches them and Google also invites people to Hackathons and pays them for exploits.
Android is now harder than iOS.
https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-zerodium/
14The only thing that makes iPhones more secure is the ability to lock them down, even then it would never be perfectly safe. Governments would stop at nothing to crack iPhones because of their ubiquity. Not saying android is miles better but the variety of hardware, and open nature is a solid foundation for fighting against universal exploits. Never assume a connected device is impenetrable
6I didn't know iPhone 5s have up to date software
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