Patch iOS, OS X now: PDFs, JPEGs, URLs, web pages can pwn your kit Apple has released updates to its iOS and OS X operating systems that address serious security flaws. The company said the iOS 7.1.1 upgrade will include, as well as some stability updates, fixes for 19 security flaws. One of those vulnerabilities is a "triple handshake" error in iOS SecureTransport – which is part of the OS …
Have they fixed the bug where all your personal data are belong to Google?
Christ, most Android device manufacturers still can't be arsed to support any product that's more than about six picoseconds old.
As for Swype: why would I bother with a kludge like that when I can just dictate or connect to a proper keyboard over Bluetooth?
So you don't have any data on the web that identifies you anywhere? Yeh, whatever. I don't mind some data being held by Google/Whomever if it serves my needs.
Also, ever tried using a bluetooth keyboard while walking? Ok. Sure. I'll stick with Swype thankyou very much.
Whoa there keyslinger!! Not once did he mention that he used or preferred an Android device to an Apple one. For all you know he may have an iPhone and just wants to use a swipey keyboard.
So quick to try to fight, let the guy state his opinion without jumping on him straight away. I swear you were just waiting to play holy hell with the first person who posted.
Silly iTroll
Whoa there anonydroid!!! Anyone who posts on here regularly knows that anonymous cowards shouldn't be calling out those brave souls who let you see their posting history....
As an impartial observer I'd say Prough's original post seems almost totally irrelevant, but Sean bilbo baggins reply is positively spittle flecked. Neither comes out of this looking good, and the discussion thread on a relatively interesting article descends into immature "did", "didn't", "did too!" arguments.
Well done everyone!!!
@AC - "As an impartial observer I'd say Prough's original post seems almost totally irrelevant, but Sean bilbo baggins reply is positively spittle flecked. Neither comes out of this looking good, and the discussion thread on a relatively interesting article descends into immature "did", "didn't", "did too!" arguments."
This article originally was about iOS updates to the built-in keyboard, but when the new "Triple Handshake" security info became available, El Reg completely changed the article but left the original comments. Now all these comments about iPhone keyboards look pretty silly, but it was still a fair bit of trolling on my part, if I do say so myself. Certainly seemed to get some fanboy's knickers in a twist. And what's more fun than that?
Did you overlook the fact that Google helped point out/fix the bugs in Apples IOS?
Belong to Google? You need to stop believing all the banter and understand the facts.
Have you ever read Apples TOA?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/05/06/itunes.terms/
My Nexus 7 on-screen keyboard is simply awful. It's very close to rubbish, all down to bad programming. The sensitivity in unreliable, and the spell checker is just daft. It even randomly moves the cursor for no apparent reason. Cut and paste code is written by a twelve year old... ...tree stump. My iPhone keyboard is much more usable.
Anyone that doesn't have at least one gadget in each ecosystem is a loser. Except for Microsoft products; you're allowed to simply ignore them. Because they're stupid.
Actually they said "we haven't updated the bundled OpenSSL since 2011". They did not say that any of their code actually uses it.
Apple's code uses its own Secure Transport. Secure Transport does not use OpenSSL. None of the issues fixed today is known to affect OpenSSL.
For those of us that actually read the stories, this was underlined by goto fail, when Apple managed to engineer a bug into its SSL code that didn't affect anybody else.
AFAIA, in most cases: the engines at the heart of Apple Safari and Google Chrome share a common ancestry in WebKit. It so happens that if Google finds a bug in WebKit, it may be present in Safari, too. So either Google tells Apple or Apple notices Google's patches, or the upstream change, and applies the patch, too.
There are corner cases, such as Google engineers competing in Pwn2Own contests with Apple kit.
C.
Also, quite a few Google devs use Apple kit on the desktop. Getting bugs in the desktop product fixed protects Google's engineers from being hacked. And since desktop and mobile products share a lot of code, Apple then applies the fixes to its mobile products.
@Nextweek:
Does it not work for you? Why not post some bug reports or even better some patches? Suspend/resume works for me on rather a large number of systems.
It's unlikely that big G do much that is not in their own self-interest. I suspect that given that flogging ads is pretty much their core business, patching something that is substandard in delivering ads is a sound policy.
Cheers
Jon
Thankfully the 30 spam messages today containing zip files which contain a file ending in .exe don't seem to have any affect. That's the nice thing about Windows attracting all the ner-do-wells; targeting Mac just ain't worth it for them.
@Wibble
One day you will receive a binary targeted at iOS with a daft name ending in .exe. There are quite a few rotten apples on the planet nowadays and as a member of that group you are a target.
I'm a security consultant amongst other things and I don't feel particularly safe (in an IT way) running my hand crafted Linux systems with all sorts of funky safeguards: I suggest you don't feel particularly smug errr ... safe either. For you (and me) being simply different is no longer good enough to provide protection.
Cheers
Jon
"One day you will receive a binary targeted at iOS with a daft name ending in .exe."
Yes, and? If it ends in .exe it won't run on a Mac or a iOS device unless the user actually does something silly. I see something ending in .exe on a Mac or iOS system, I kill said item. I certainly don't attempt to run it. I've _never_ seen an item ending in .exe on _any_ iOS system except as an attachment to email. This makes it trivial to get rid of them without opening them.
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