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Apple incompetence could save the world

by on03 July 2015


Three malwares could wipe out all things Apple

Apple's faith based security system could end up smashing every iPhone and IPad in the world and thus saving the world.

Don't get us wrong, we thing that is a good thing and if it was not for a court order and better police surveillance methods we probably would be out there with hammers raising the world's standards by smashing every iPhone and iPad we see (we would smash watches but we have never seen anyone with one of those).

But now it seems that Apple's poor attitude to security might be doing that for us. Apple's security, which is normally the first to fall in any hacking contests, is based on a belief that it is really secure and hacking only happens to Google or Microsoft machines.

There is no evidence of this, but it is probably a belief listed in Apple's Terms and Conditions.

Now security experts from FireEye security firm claim that the combination of three malwares can allow the hackers to forcibly demolish, break and hijack the iPhones and iPads. Effectively sending them to silicon heaven.

According to FireEye, they mentioned the doomsday scenario to Apple and it is apparently waiting for orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

The first malware is dubbed as the 'Manifest Masque.' It directly causes problems to people who use third party applications stores. The second malware is dubbed as the 'Extension Masque.' This malware infiltrates the device's capability to protect the applications from malware. In other words, your device is not able to protect its applications from malwares.

Both of these malwares complement each other in breaching the devices security. This can result in a serious threat to the user's personal information such as GPS location, contacts, call logs, etc.

FireEye's CTO EMEA, Greg Day says that this threat can potentially kill, replace or tamper with apps.

The third malware is dubbed as the 'Plugin Masque.' This malware can cripple your device's ability to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which can result in all sorts of hacks, including the hacks from government agencies.

According to FireEye, any users who have not updated their iOS versions above 8.1.3 can be a potential victim to this major flaw.

Apple has not made any announcements and the security team is believed to be sitting in the lotus position chanting "Steve Jobs protects us from all malware, only Android has malware for our software is perfect."

For each piece of Apple gear out there which is destroyed, the evolution of technology and humanity is raised by just a fraction... just throwing out seeds on a poor news day.

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