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APPLE BOOSTS IPHONE SECURITY AFTER MIDEAST SPYWARE DISCOVERY
AP Paris ^ | August 25, 2016

Posted on 08/25/2016 10:35:00 AM PDT by Swordmaker

PARIS (AP) -- Apple says it is issuing a security update after powerful espionage software was found targeting an activist's iPhone in the Middle East.

Computer forensics experts tell The Associated Press the spyware takes advantage of three previously undisclosed weaknesses in Apple's mobile operating system to take complete control of iPhone handsets.

Two reports published Thursday by the San Francisco-based Lookout and internet watchdog group Citizen Lab outline how the spyware could compromise an iPhone with the tap of a finger, a trick so coveted in the world of cyberespionage that one spyware broker said last year that it had paid a $1 million dollar bounty to programmers who'd found a way to do it.

Apple said in a statement that it fixed the vulnerability immediately after learning about it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; malware
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To: manc

Exactly how is informing users, many of whom visit this site using Macs or iPhones, harming you? If you do not like it; don’t read it. Liberals always seem intent on censoring what others say, ever notice that?

This neither pumps Apple, nor insults any other product. It’s simply a notice that some evil doers have found an exploit and Apple has released a patch. If it doesn’t apply to you, then you need do nothing. Meanwhile, others may appreciate the heads up.

“lighten up, Francis”


41 posted on 08/26/2016 7:41:16 AM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: manc

So little writing, and you didn’t answer the questions. . Because you, being a troll never read it or you would have seen there are questions you are being asked which you rudely ignore since the beginning of this thread.

You are not entitled to an answer to off topic questions, manc.


42 posted on 08/26/2016 8:51:00 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

I’m not entitled LOL


43 posted on 08/26/2016 9:03:25 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Swordmaker
Thanks for the heads up. This was an obvious state sponsored attack. Updated.

Keep up the good work.
44 posted on 08/26/2016 9:05:50 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: manc

You still haven’t posted a damn thing germane to the topic of this entire thread. Not a single thing. TROLL!


45 posted on 08/26/2016 1:48:14 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

That is because I asked you do you ever post anything to do with your stance in politics and yet you are still fixated on calling me a troll! !!

YCEMIU


46 posted on 08/26/2016 1:56:35 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: manc

And I told you I do and have, repeatedly. . . But you keep trying to hijack THIS thread. CUT IT OUT! This is not a political thread. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE TO ASK POLITICAL QUESTIONS! If you can’t read, what are you doing on a site that requires reading?


47 posted on 08/26/2016 2:00:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

LOL, yet your past posts say otherwise, and yet you keep posting to me.


48 posted on 08/26/2016 2:06:34 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: manc; House Atreides; aMorePerfectUnion; DesertRhino; donozark; conservatism_IS_compassion; ...
LOL, yet your past posts say otherwise, and yet you keep posting to me.

You asked a specific question to which I gave you a specific and direct answer in my first response to you, but YOU are the one who has continued to harass the participants in this thread. It is NOT my responsibility to prove anything to you, especially not in a non-political thread which you have shown every sign of rudely attempting to disrupt and hijack, against the rules of this forum.

You've been called on the carpet by almost every other person on this thread for your boorish behavior who find you out of line, but you insist on continuing being an asshat, the sign of a crude asshat. Your purpose here appears to be to just throw turds and spray your graffiti on the thread. Cut it out.

Now you are calling me a liar. YOU ARE TROLLING and trying to hijack this thread and from the posts of every other participant and unwelcome pest. That is the essence of a troll thread. YOU meet the definition to a "T" as in TROLL. . . and an asshat.

49 posted on 08/26/2016 5:42:17 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

good grief, now you have to call the cavalry. LOL Get a grip and stop being a drama queen.


50 posted on 08/26/2016 6:24:06 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: manc

Why do you care where Swordmaker stands politically? What are you, the hall monitor?


51 posted on 08/27/2016 7:29:43 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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