Thor Schrock on the iPhone Security Alert

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And if you're an iphoner, you're going to want to

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know a little more about this urgent iPhone security update
issued by Apple, and Apple is warning that hackers maybe
exploiting your vulnerabilities. And we're joined for a few minutes
here by Thor Shock Innovations, host of Compute this on

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KFABY Radio every Sunday morning at seven, and our guru
and all things Digital Thor.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
A good morning, Good morning Gary.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
What do we know about this deal?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, there's basically two different vulnerabilities that are impacting Apple
iOS right now. Those two vulnerabilities, they're separate things, but
they're both being what the industry access would say exploited
in the wild, which means there are currently active attacks
that are targeting Apple devices that are not patched. The
vulnerability is so bad that Apple actually released patches for

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older iPhones, for older ioss that are no longer supported
because they wanted to make sure that everybody. So even
if you have an old iPhone and you're not used
to seeing the security patches anymore, and you're like, yeah,
I know, I need a new one, maybe for Christmas,
you know whatever, and suddenly you get a pop up
to install a patch you definitely need to let that
installation run and install the patching your device because the

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two attacks, one of them could allow a bad guy
to well essentially run software on your phone without you
knowing about it. Okay, so that's bad like a virus.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
What if you don't say they on the pop up,
does that mean it's just automatically done.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, you can go into settings and you can actually
check to see if they're updates if you want to
go through that. But Apple is very good about popping
it up on the screen and do and you know,
showing it to you. You know, again, this is something
if you are you know, if you're a retired guy
who's just you know, cruising around the ozarks on his
boat and you know you're living your best life, and

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you know you don't even really know what the internet is,
you know, you don't. You don't need to jump on
this and be like, oh my gosh, I have to.
I don't want to be a victim. But if you're
somebody who you know does online banking or does if
you if you're watching this in video run up on
your in your stock portfolios and stuff on your on
your online trading accounts, you know these are things that

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these are patches that you need to install on your
device because the other one actually involved in the Safari
browser vulnerability that allows bad guys to to you know,
pack into the the websites that you're looking at and
basically impersonate them, so you could it's put in your
credit card, you put in your credit card number, and
it's not actually the website you thought it was. So
there's a couple of vulnerabilities that you really, you really

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should patch if you have the opportunity to do.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
So. Okay, well, I've got a thirteen and uh, there
have been no pop ups and I just checked settings.
There are no notifications.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'll say, you just got a new phone, Gary, Oh,
that's I did. And they gave you a thirteen.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well that's what I ordered. Oh well, I actually thought
I ordered the fourteen, that they sent the thirteen. That
what they It's fine, and now they got the sixteen, right,
So you can't keep up. But there is thirteen is
not considered old, I assume, or is it?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, it's still supported. You're still supported. You can't do
any of the cool Apple intelligence stuff with it, not
that there's much you can do with it. Right now,
but there will be in the future, so your next
phone upgrade will probably be quite a quantum leap in capability.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Right, Okay, anything other than the usual magnificence on your
show Sunday morning this week, any particular topics we should
know about.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh boy, we you know, one of the things. We
kind of straddle the line sometimes talking about consumer stuff
and business, you know, corporate stuff. And one of the
we had a call out. There's a doctor's office in
town here that had a previous it. Guy just wasn't
really doing what they wanted them to do, called us out.
We happened to secure the network, like on Tuesday. We

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got them as a client, find them on Monday, secured
them on Tuesday. On Wednesday they got hit with a
ransomware attack that was blocked by the security software that
we put on the network. So you know, it's one
of these things. Probably one of the most fun segments
we did in a while was some guy on a
technology blog basically wrote that, you know, only only old
people who listen to AM radio still buy anti virus,

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And so, first of all, I thank all my can't
abut listeners for buying antivirus. Secondly, you know. I'm like, yeah,
that's because people who listen to AM radio are typically
more informed in the general. You know, they know that
the threats are out there, and then that's a great
example of it. I mean, it's just so you know,
along with you know, making sure you have your updates
installed on your Apple device. You know, people don't realize
that phones need antivirus, tablets need antivirus. Now, I mean,

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the threats are out there, and you just got to
keep yourself safe.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah. Well, he's too cool for school for one thing,
and he's ignorant another thing. Wrote that AM stands for
active mind exactly know that no I did. That's for free.
That's all yours. Great to have you, brother. Thanks tharsh
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