Does iOS 8.4.1 fix an MMS exploit?

[tamara-10]

A friend of mine received a MMS yesterday that made his phone reboot. Shortly thereafter his email account was compromised. Then Apple issued the iOS 8.4.1 with many references to security fixes, but none discussing MMS.

He also says he was watching a video when his phone reboot.

 

[perkedel]

A friend of mine received a MMS yesterday that made his phone reboot. Shortly thereafter his email account was compromised. Then Apple issued the iOS 8.4.1 with many references to security fixes, but none discussing MMS.

He also says he was watching a video when his phone reboot.

I heard about the android mms stagefright, but not ios one. your friend is using fake iphone running android maybe?
there was that unicode text bug in ios which was fixed a while back.

 

[tamara-10]

I heard about the android mms stagefright, but not ios one. your friend is using fake iphone running android maybe?
there was that unicode text bug in ios which was fixed a while back.

It was not a fake iPhone running android. My friend would know — he has a PhD in computer science and does digital forensics.

 

[chrfr]

It was not a fake iPhone running android. My friend would know — he has a PhD in computer science and does digital forensics.

There's no widespread reports of any MMS vulnerability in iOS. I'd write this off to a coincidence.

 

[perkedel]

— he has a PhD in computer science and does digital forensics.

okay, so you're going to pull degrees on this, hmm okay. I work with academics, I know better what phd people can do in their field vs what others can do in different field.
Yet he's email got hacked. That tells you something else.

 

[lagwagon]

okay, so you're going to pull degrees on this, hmm okay. I work with academics, I know better what phd people can do in their field vs what others can do in different field.
Yet he's email got hacked. That tells you something else.

I was thinking the same thing. Ph.D. in computer science and yet has his email account compromised.

 

[cynics]

I was thinking the same thing. Ph.D. in computer science and yet has his email account compromised.

Only dummies get their info hacked right?

 

[deviant]

Only dummies get their info hacked right?

Well... pretty much, actually.

 

[C DM]

Well... pretty much, actually.

Because how intelligent someone is has anything to do with some company or the government having a security exploit of some sort which leads to data being hacked and in turn a lot of people that had their data stolen being hacked in one way or another because of that?