Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM tells residents
www.theguardian.com
Experts back Anthony Albanese’s cybersecurity advice, saying forcibly closing apps could stop criminals from monitoring users or collecting data

Interesting to hear such things discussed at that level. Turning it off is suggested to get rid of compromised background processes that might be spying on users. Obviously, this only help against malware that isn’t permanently installed on a phone.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Of course you should always update your iOS when a security fix comes out. It’s not the first remote exploit and it definitely won’t be the last.

    The Teams fix seems to be a bug in how Teams deals with external accounts. It won’t exploit your device automatically, it just allows your run of the mill phishing attempts.