The digest of interesting materials for mobile developer # 69 (September 1-7)

In many ways, the news of this week is related to Apple - leaked photos of celebrities and the investigation of this case, preparing for the upcoming conference on Tuesday with the update tools, predictions about what will be in the new iPhone. In addition, the virus for Android, as mobile advertising works, the first smartphone with a curved display from Samsung - in a weekly digest.

* A picture made by rootes was used as a poster .

ICloud photos leak

Candid photos of Jennifer Lawrence and dozens of celebrities leaked via iCloud → Apple fixed an important vulnerability in iCloud → Apple: iCloud had nothing to do with it, celebrities fell victim to targeted attacks → Leaked private photos of celebrities: a detailed investigation of the Australian developer → Apple will strengthen iCloud security

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Personal photos of some celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Ariana Grande were posted by an anonymous hacker on 4Chan. Apparently, the leaks were made possible by hacking accounts from Apple iCloud cloud storage, into which information is automatically copied from all Apple devices, which most users do not even think about.

0day vulnerability in iOS apps: Gmail, Google+ and FB Messenger

I spend my nights reading documentation and testing a wide variety of applications and services. One night, I just read the documentation about tel links, since I was delighted with the old technologies that have been used so far, their shortcomings and the fact that people have never read the RFC, which leads them to RTFM PWNAGE (as I used to call).

SMS virus under the Android OS or "Hello :) You photo ..."

As a sender, there was a person with whom I had not communicated for some time. After seeing the test message and dismissing the phone with the words “Regular spam”, I further plunged into work. All would be fine, but after a couple of minutes a similar message arrived on the second phone (Samsung Galaxy Gio). The number of the sender is the same.