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Title: Let the right one in: Apple uses two doors to manage malware Post by: HCK on November 14, 2014, 03:00:21 pm Let the right one in: Apple uses two doors to manage malware
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Two recent security incidents, WireLurker (http://www.macworld.com/article/2844812/apple-blocks-infected-wirelurker-apps-from-running.html) and Masque Attack (http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/cyber-exploits/2014/11/masque-attack-all-your-ios-apps-belong-to-us.html), highlight both the ease and difficulty of slipping malware onto iOS. But they also show the way in which Apple may have infantilized its audience into not knowing the right choice to make when presented with a genuine security flaw.</p><p> WireLurker used malware inserted into Mac OS X programs made available at a Chinese-focused third-party app store to install apps to iOS devices over USB. It added apps in jailbroken and regular devices. Masque Attack in its most powerful methodology pushes apps (from websites, email, and elsewhere) that, if installed, overwrite common popular apps and extract cached data for that app, such as Gmail. WireLurker has been effectively defanged; Apple has more work to do (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/13/uk-apple-cybersecurity-dhs-idUKKCN0IX29P20141113) to remove any threat from Masque Attack.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2847465/let-the-right-one-in-apple-uses-two-doors-to-manage-malware.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Let the right one in: Apple uses two doors to manage malware (http://www.macworld.com/article/2847465/let-the-right-one-in-apple-uses-two-doors-to-manage-malware.html#tk.rss_all) |