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Apple pushed several security fixes on Wednesday, including one for all iPhone and iPads used before September last year that has already been exploited by cyber snoops. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-32434, "may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7," according to Apple's …

  1. Jan 0 Silver badge

    This a strange use of the verb "drops". Normally, I expect usage like: Apple to drop support for iPhone 7 in iOS 17. Or Microsoft to drop support for Windows 7.

    So in this case it reads like Apple has a patch but has abandoned it?

    1. werdsmith Silver badge

      Drop is a very flexible word. One of its informal uses is to deliver something. As in "made the drop" or "dropshipping". I think this is where this is loosely going.

      I inferred the meaning from the context and didn't give it a second thought until you mentioned it.

    2. Ace2 Silver badge

      At $WORK we use it to mean ‘incremental release.’

  2. Clausewitz4.0 Bronze badge
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    NSA

    When it is FBI/CIA/NSA doing it, why people do become shy? The bullets? The poison? The bombs? Or the accidents?

    Oh.. I see..

    1. IGotOut Silver badge

      Re: NSA

      As a Russian company, why would they worry about the US agencies getting to them?

      1. Clausewitz4.0 Bronze badge
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        Re: NSA

        This company is global. Whacking a few top directors / engineers in another country could send a message.

  3. DS999 Silver badge

    Malware authors directly attacked Kaspersky?

    That's kind of bold but that seems like the second fastest way to insure the hole you are using is found and patched after directly attacking Apple engineers!

    1. IGotOut Silver badge

      Re: Malware authors directly attacked Kaspersky?

      It also makes sense if you are trying to gain, even if short lived, info on security researchers (note it turned out to be several others).

      1. Clausewitz4.0 Bronze badge
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        Re: Malware authors directly attacked Kaspersky?

        Like killing a high-value target in the movies - high risk, big payout

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