It looks like the Bad Guys are attacking older devices as well:
Apple backported a fix to older iPhones and iPads for a serious bug it patched last month – but only after it may have been exploited in what the company calls "extremely sophisticated" attacks.
The latest security update, pushed on Monday, fixes an out-of-bounds write issue tracked as CVE-2025-43300 in the ImageIO framework, which Apple uses to allow applications to read and write image file formats. It's available for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPad 5th generation, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, and iPad Pro 12.9-inch 1st generation, and the iThings maker on August 20 patched the same CVE in its newer devices.
Well done to Apple for this. iPhone 8 was released a long time ago, but they're still supporting it with security fixes. Bravo.
Tagged with my Apple Sucks tag because this time they absolutely do not.
That’s all well and good, BP. But I’m not a computer geek. I go hand to hand with my iPhone - and always lose! Doin it as I try to type this as a matter of fact…😣
ReplyDeleteWhat phone should I be on in your opinion? What are you using?
Glen,
ReplyDeleteI think that Apple is much more serious about their customer's privacy than Google is. Apple has repeatedly told governments to get bent when they demand encryption backdoors; Google seemingly couldn't care less.
Also, I think that Apple's update model is superior (it certainly was just a few years ago; I don't get the sense that this is a big area of concern to Google).
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- Borepatch
So I use an iPhone. If I wanted to jailbreak it (I don't) then I might prefer Android.
Thanks for the update. I went and updated my iphone 8 yesterday. I thought it was long out of Apple's update windows.
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