Apple iPhones were successfully hacked by NSO’s Pegasus surveillance tool(washingtonpost.com)

5 pointsby jbegleyvor 5 Jahren1 comments

Apple iPhones were successfully hacked by NSO’s Pegasus surveillance tool

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-iphone-nso/

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Neither Apple nor Android devices are safe. Their security theatre is about vendor lock in. That even makes devices inherently unsafe, especially if malware has more access rights than a user.

This time it was iMessage apparently. An exploit was released in 2020, perhaps this is just using this vulnerability. Apple had patched it, but perhaps the users didn't update their phones.

This would happen less if we had better and more open operation systems on phones.

Ultimervor 5 Jahren