Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it. https://www.wired.com/story/airborne-airplay-flaws/
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Apple’s AirPlay feature enables iPhones and Macbooks to seamlessly play music or show photos and videos on other Apple devices or third-party speakers and TVs that integrate the protocol.
Now newly uncovered security flaws in AirPlay mean that those same wireless connections could allow hackers to move within a network just as easily, spreading malicious code from one infected device to another.
Apple products are known for regularly receiving fixes, but given how rarely some smart-home devices are patched, it’s likely that these wirelessly enabled footholds for malware, across many of the hundreds of models of AirPlay-enabled devices, will persist for years to come.
Hi Wired, do you know that your website's integration with the share sheet on iOS to open stories in Apple News has been broken for quite some time now?
Airport and Export Express devices haven't seen an update for their firmware since June 2019. Please sign and share this petition, asking Apple to provide a firmware update to keep these devices out of the landfill.
There's a Change dot org petition requesting Apple to consider updating the firmware on Airport and Airport Express devices, to keep them out of the landfill. Please sign and share widely.
Please sign and share this @change.org petition asking Apple to resume firmware updates for Airport and Airport Express devices. Without an update these devices are now dangerous to operate.
A firmware update will keep millions of these devices out of the landfill.
Oops. I was replying to posts that turned up in a search for "AirPlay" and didn't realize that some of them were in the same thread. Doh! C'est la vie.
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Or knife and stone?
Or grunts??
😣
Not even my TV.
My phones and laptops are enough intrusion already.
#AirBorne #AirPlay #AirportExpress
https://www.change.org/p/encourage-apple-to-resume-firmware-updates-for-airport-express-security-environment
https://www.change.org/p/encourage-apple-to-resume-firmware-updates-for-airport-express-security-environment
A firmware update will keep millions of these devices out of the landfill.
https://www.change.org/p/encourage-apple-to-resume-firmware-updates-for-airport-express-security-environment