Apple Admits Products Are Vulnerable to Hackers

[ThatAngryGnome]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2014/02/apple-admits-products-vulnerable-to-hackers/

 

So a flaw in the OS made many Apple mobile devices an easy target for some pretty sweet information.... 

[jameshumphries47]

aha love it

[defunkt]

[SAV1OUR]

we all know apples better because it cant get viruses huder huder 

[hawaiims]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2014/02/apple-admits-products-vulnerable-to-hackers/

 

So a flaw in the OS made many Apple mobile devices an easy target for some pretty sweet information.... 

annnnd??? People who thought that for some magical reason Steve Jobs was able to sprinkle some fairy dust on OSX and other products to make it impossible to break their security were extremely stupid in the first place. There is no OS that's invulnerable to anything. 

[Zeal]

Impossibru! Apple devices can't get viruses! :rolleyes:

[MrSuperb]

Impossibru! Apple devices can't get viruses! :rolleyes:

 

yeah ... there are actually some reasons why it is far harder to write an effective virus for OS X than Windows

[FizzyFantom]

Impossibru! Apple devices can't get viruses! :rolleyes:

I don't think that viruses are the issue, it's more about the backdoors Apple uses to spy on you.

*Trollface*

[R4STABAN]

Viruses? wat?

 

It's a programming error, in red here:

 

static OSStatus
SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange(SSLContext *ctx, bool isRsa, SSLBuffer signedParams,
uint8_t *signature, UInt16 signatureLen)
{
OSStatus err;
...
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &serverRandom)) != 0)
goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
goto fail;
goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
goto fail;
...
fail:
SSLFreeBuffer(&signedHashes);
SSLFreeBuffer(&hashCtx);
return err;
}

[Jaybird]

this is like saying, "oh dang its raining water, IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY!" caught somewhere between apple hater fan boys and apple, anything is vulnerable if you try hard enough. thats why companies spend millions to hackers to try and remove any potential exploits. just go away! we intelligent people know this already.