HACKINTOSH.ORG | Macintosh discussion forums

Stagefright-style vulnerability discovered in OS X and iOS, update for protection

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/maxresdefault3.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&strip=all&w=1600&h=1000)</div>
<p>Security researchers last year discovered what they described as ‘the <a href="http://9to5google.com/2015/07/27/worst-android-malware-ever/" target="_blank">worst Android vulnerability[/url] ever,’ able to infect a phone with malware simply by sending an MMS message to it. The vulnerability, dubbed <a href="http://9to5google.com/guides/stagefright/" target="_blank">Stagefright[/url], didn’t even require people to open the message for their phone to be infected.</p>
<p>A Cisco researcher has now <a href="http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/07/apple-image-rce.html" target="_blank">discovered[/url] a similar vulnerability in OS X and iOS, that could allow an attacker to gain access to your stored passwords and files simply by sending you a malicious image file …</p>
<p> <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/22/stagefright-mac-iphone-ipad/#more-439879" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
Filed under: <a href='http://9to5mac.com/category/apple/'>Apple[/url]  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/439879/" />[/url] <img alt="" border="0" src="(http://[img]http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)[/img]?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=439879&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img alt="" border="0" src="(http://[img]http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)[/img]?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=439879&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><div class="feedflare">
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?i=xSKP1GRwoGI:8YDgEMXaoto:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?a=xSKP1GRwoGI:8YDgEMXaoto:D7DqB2pKExk)
</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~4/xSKP1GRwoGI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Source: Stagefright-style vulnerability discovered in OS X and iOS, update for protection (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/xSKP1GRwoGI/)