dpb

Ooh dear, not quite so impregnable.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29928751.

JackClark

Oh no! Are you telling me that you can write a program that does nasty things if the user uses a third party apps store and twice agrees that it can do nasty things. Oh no! Guess I'll just stick to the default settings and be safe then.

Rescue Dude

iTrader: (11)

".....appears to have originated in China and is mostly infecting devices there."


Karma.

JackClark

I just scanned my 2006 iMac, nothing found, I've only run on demand scans on this machine and the only thing that's ever been found are windows viruses in spam email. That's 8 years and nothing, not a sausage. Should I be worried by your post?

Galifrey

iTrader: (3)

As Apples become more popular they will increasingly become a target for malware.

Same as every other computer format since malware started.

They still have advantages over the Androids and Windows devices in that respect.

JackClark

Although that is somewhat true OSX is inherently more secure than Windows and that's the real differentiator. You can't say that OSX and iOS has an insignificant market share any more.

Devildog

This:-

"As always, we recommend that users download and install software from trusted sources."

Do otherwise and take your chances. Its really not rocket science, irrespective of what platform you are using.

dpb, I'm not sure what your point actually was here?

JackClark

He's trolling. Totally acceptable in here as long as its anti apple.

Apple have shut that threat down, less than 24 hours.

dpb

Eh, ??

it was on BBC news website...!!

JackClark

You've made it pretty clear that anything you post here is to wind up Apple users, you have no idea what the article was about or it's validity only that it may be a negative point regarding Apple so you posted it, Troll.

dpb

Oh sorry, I didn't quite realise this was an everyday occurrence

Markus

If you download from any untrusted source then you can get into trouble, regardless of the OS you are using.

From a technical viewpoint it's a rather interesting thing, as it looked for connected iOS devices and copied over something to them.

How did it install? It used enterprise signing, which as the article mentions is normally used by companies to install apps on their own devices.

A bit of background. When you sign up as a developer for iOS, you have to register your devices with Apple's developer portal. You then add them to a provisioning profile, which basically says "Apps can be installed on these devices only". You have 100 slots for devices. You use up all 100 and you have to wait until your programme renewal date before you can free up a slot.

Back in ye olde days, you could remove a device and free up a slot, but this got locked down as people were abusing it. Shame, as it makes dev's life a little more painful.

I had two developer programmes running at the same time as we needed to potentially deploy to 100+ devices.

If you are developing apps for internal use only, you can sign up for what is know as an Enterprise Account. This allows you to do away with the device registration, so you can install apps on pretty much as many devices as you have.

It's this system that they used to get an app onto a non jailbroken device. Thankfully there is a way to revoke the certificate used for the install, thus preventing the app from installing, or if it is installed, from actually launching. From what I've seen elsewhere, Apple has revoked things and thus the install will no longer work, crisis averted.

jameswrx

iTrader: (4)

I wish someone would attack the update team! Jees, what is it lately that you seem to be waiting for an update to the update to fix all the bugs!

I even backed my phone up and started again the other day and it's still buggy. Wish I'd never bothered updating to 8

Was speaking to a couple of guys at work and both getting the same problems too. Even on the new six plus so can't just be the usual 'Apple writin the older devices out of existence' scenario.

JackClark

I sometimes wish I saw these problems, or remembered them. iPad 2, 5s and 6+ all running great! Better than ever.