www/proprietary malware-apple.html proprietary-...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/09/07 02:58:35

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-apple.html proprietary-insecurity.html 
                         proprietary.html 
        proprietary/workshop: mal.rec 

Log message:
        iOS bugs exploited (www-discuss 2019-09-07).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-apple.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.101&r2=1.102
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.107&r2=1.108
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.161&r2=1.162
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.142&r2=1.143

Patches:
Index: malware-apple.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-apple.html,v
retrieving revision 1.101
retrieving revision 1.102
diff -u -b -r1.101 -r1.102
--- malware-apple.html  23 Aug 2019 22:37:23 -0000      1.101
+++ malware-apple.html  7 Sep 2019 06:58:33 -0000       1.102
@@ -214,6 +214,20 @@
   bugs.</p>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201908300">
+    <p>In spite of iPhone's reputation for being
+    secure, it does have bad security flaws. Crackers
+    exploited 14 bugs of iOS for two and a half years to <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/30/hackers-monitoring-implants-iphones-google-says";>
+    steal users' most private data</a>, and gain access to their
+    accounts.</p>
+
+    <p>Apple has corrected these bugs, but this shows that <em>any</em>
+    developer of nonfree programs is liable to make mistakes affecting
+    the security of their products, and users can't investigate or fix
+    them.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201607220">
     <p>A vulnerability in Apple's Image I/O API allowed an attacker to <a
     
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/22/stagefright-flaw-ios-iphone-imessage-apple";>execute
@@ -810,7 +824,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/08/23 22:37:23 $
+$Date: 2019/09/07 06:58:33 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-insecurity.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html,v
retrieving revision 1.107
retrieving revision 1.108
diff -u -b -r1.107 -r1.108
--- proprietary-insecurity.html 6 Aug 2019 07:57:55 -0000       1.107
+++ proprietary-insecurity.html 7 Sep 2019 06:58:33 -0000       1.108
@@ -53,6 +53,20 @@
 <div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-insecurity"></div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201908300">
+    <p>In spite of iPhone's reputation for being
+    secure, it does have bad security flaws. Crackers
+    exploited 14 bugs of iOS for two and a half years to <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/30/hackers-monitoring-implants-iphones-google-says";>
+    steal users' most private data</a>, and gain access to their
+    accounts.</p>
+
+    <p>Apple has corrected these bugs, but this shows that <em>any</em>
+    developer of nonfree programs is liable to make mistakes affecting
+    the security of their products, and users can't investigate or fix
+    them.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201908020">
     <p>Out of 21 gratis Android antivirus apps
     that were tested by security researchers, eight <a
@@ -701,7 +715,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/08/06 07:57:55 $
+$Date: 2019/09/07 06:58:33 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.161
retrieving revision 1.162
diff -u -b -r1.161 -r1.162
--- proprietary.html    4 Sep 2019 10:11:41 -0000       1.161
+++ proprietary.html    7 Sep 2019 06:58:33 -0000       1.162
@@ -149,6 +149,20 @@
 <h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201908300">
+    <p>In spite of iPhone's reputation for being
+    secure, it does have bad security flaws. Crackers
+    exploited 14 bugs of iOS for two and a half years to <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/30/hackers-monitoring-implants-iphones-google-says";>
+    steal users' most private data</a>, and gain access to their
+    accounts.</p>
+
+    <p>Apple has corrected these bugs, but this shows that <em>any</em>
+    developer of nonfree programs is liable to make mistakes affecting
+    the security of their products, and users can't investigate or fix
+    them.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201908160">
     <p>A game published on Facebook <a
     
href="https://www.revealnews.org/article/so-your-child-racked-up-unwanted-credit-card-charges-playing-video-games-now-what/";>aimed
@@ -180,19 +194,6 @@
     off certain features when batteries are replaced other than by
     Apple.</a></p>
   </li>
-
-  <li id="M201908020">
-    <p>Out of 21 gratis Android antivirus apps
-    that were tested by security researchers, eight <a
-    
href="https://www.comparitech.com/antivirus/android-antivirus-vulnerabilities/";>
-    failed to detect a test virus</a>. All of them asked for dangerous
-    permissions or contained advertising trackers, with seven being more
-    risky than the average of the 100 most popular Android apps.</p>
-
-    <p>Note that the article refers to these proprietary apps as
-    &ldquo;free&rdquo;. It should have said &ldquo;gratis&rdquo;
-    instead.</p>
-  </li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -253,7 +254,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/09/04 10:11:41 $
+$Date: 2019/09/07 06:58:33 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.142
retrieving revision 1.143
diff -u -b -r1.142 -r1.143
--- workshop/mal.rec    4 Sep 2019 15:31:26 -0000       1.142
+++ workshop/mal.rec    7 Sep 2019 06:58:35 -0000       1.143
@@ -25,6 +25,25 @@
 ####    Please don't remove the blank line after this marker!    ####
 # ADD NEW BLURB HERE
 
+Added: 2019-09-07
+Id: 201908300
+RT: www-discuss 2019-09-07 (Should we put this in proprietary-insecuriy?)
+PubDate: 2019-08-30
+Target: proprietary-insecurity.html proprietary-insecurity
+Target: malware-apple.html insecurity
+Keywords: iOS
+Blurb: <p>In spite of iPhone's reputation for being
++   secure, it does have bad security flaws. Crackers
++   exploited 14 bugs of iOS for two and a half years to <a
++   
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/30/hackers-monitoring-implants-iphones-google-says";>
++   steal users' most private data</a>, and gain access to their
++   accounts.</p>
++
++   <p>Apple has corrected these bugs, but this shows that <em>any</em>
++   developer of nonfree programs is liable to make mistakes affecting
++   the security of their products, and users can't investigate or fix
++   them.</p>
+
 Added: 2019-08-31
 Id: 201908160
 RT: www-discuss 2019-08-07