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Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems

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262 points fortran77 | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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acdha ◴[20 Nov 24 00:43 UTC] No.42189685[source]▶
Interesting that they’re mentioned as only being exploited on Intel. Has anyone seen whether that’s because the attacker only targeted that platform or is it actually stopped by something like pointer protection?
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justinclift ◴[20 Nov 24 01:02 UTC] No.42189809[source]▶
Doesn't seem to completely line up that they're rushing out iOS updates (ie for phones, etc) for something they're saying they've only confirmed on Intel cpus.

Unless they're assuming it's exploitable on Apple Silicon as well, or are being extra careful just in case.

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2muchcoffeeman ◴[20 Nov 24 01:16 UTC] No.42189876[source]▶
There must be millions of Intel Macs still around. Why wouldn’t they update it?
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wannacboatmovie ◴[20 Nov 24 01:26 UTC] No.42189940[source]▶
Well for starters, they stopped providing any updates for many perfectly functional Intel Macs years ago for no other reason than planned obsolescence. A side effect of the "they make both the hardware and software that's why it's better" paradigm.

Things like OpenCore Legacy Patcher prove it's possible; they just don't want to.

I don't think anyone feels entitled to new features in perpetuity. Security updates only would be fine thank you.

Don't tell me the richest company in the world can't pay for a couple of developers who just want to rest and vest to take care of and test the legacy platforms. A cushy job and you keep the customers happy.

Ironically the best way to stay safe on these computers is to install Windows or Linux.

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threeseed ◴[20 Nov 24 01:51 UTC] No.42190100{3}[source]▶
Sequoia is supported on most Intel Macs going back to 2018.

And it's far more than just a "couple of developers" to support older operating systems.

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1. wannacboatmovie ◴[20 Nov 24 02:49 UTC] No.42190415{4}[source]▶
You act as if we should be thankful for 6 years of support when the hardware and sane support cycles easily exceed 10 years. And those aren't 6 years of security updates; they are 6 years of forced yearly feature upgrades and breaking things along the way.
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2. fn-mote ◴[20 Nov 24 03:06 UTC] No.42190490[source]▶
What software are you talking about?

Who is forcing you to upgrade?

For that matter, what hardware?

I run an old Intel Mac and it’s perfectly reasonable for casual work. I’m not paying for stuff like Adobe leases though.

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3. vetinari ◴[20 Nov 24 11:07 UTC] No.42192751[source]▶
What exactly is an old Intel mac and what is a casual work?

For example, I have 2015 macbook pro. The last macos release for it is Monterey. Even brew has problems with that, erroring out when installing packages like libpng and complaining, that I should upgrade xcode cli tools. Which I can't.