CISA Has a Cry About Apple’s Swiss Cheese Security, Nobody Gives a Shit
Oh for fuck’s sake. Look what the cat dragged in – another goddamn security advisory from CISA about Apple’s piss-poor coding practices. Apparently those overpriced glass rectangles you insist on calling “phones” have more holes than a colander, and surprise, surprise, the bad guys are already driving trucks through them.
CISA – that’s the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for those of you who can’t be arsed to remember acronyms – has added three fresh Apple vulnerabilities to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Translation? Script kiddies and nation-state fuckwits are already using these bugs to root your iPhones, Macs, and iPads while you’re busy taking pictures of your avocado toast.
The vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-23225, CVE-2024-23296, and CVE-2024-27867 for those keeping score) are kernel-level clusterfucks that let attackers bypass security protections, execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges, and generally turn your thousand-dollar status symbol into a glorified spyware dispenser. One of them’s even being actively exploited to steal cryptocurrency, because God forbid we go five minutes without some blockchain bollocks getting involved in a security nightmare.
And what does CISA want? They want federal agencies to patch their shit by early August. Good fucking luck with that. I’ve seen government IT move faster than a sloth on tranquilizers. Meanwhile, you civilians are probably reading this on your unpatched iPhone 12, smugly thinking that “it won’t happen to me” while some Russian teenager drains your Bitcoin wallet through a zero-click exploit he copy-pasted from GitHub.
Apple released patches for this garbage back in March and May, but who bothers updating, right? You’d rather keep that sketchy jailbreak or avoid the “new iOS is slower” conspiracy theories your cousin posted on Facebook. Well, enjoy being part of a Chinese botnet, you absolute muppets. When your camera light starts blinking at 3 AM and your crypto wallet is emptier than your head, don’t come crying to me.
Reminds me of the time I had to support a sales drone who insisted his iPad was “immune to viruses because it’s Apple.” I fixed his attitude by remotely bricking the device and telling him it must be the “new quantum security feature” working overtime to protect his spreadsheets. He believed me for three days before someone in HR explained what “malicious compliance” meant. I still have his liver-spotted user credentials taped to my server rack as a warning to others.
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