[NANOG] Re: Apple-centric reboot event in Southern California

[Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Jay,

Thanks for that data point as well. I do see that several news reports say that this is an urgent upgrade due to an 
active zero day attack.

-mel via cell

> On Mar 13, 2025, at 1:34 PM, Jay Hennigan via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> On 3/13/25 11:45, Mel Beckman via NANOG wrote:
> > I am in Ventura county, California, and just now at 11:30AM PT we had an iPhone, an iPad, and an iMac all crash 
> > simultaneously. The Ethernet-connected iMac had a black screen of death, and the iOS devices were on WiFi and had to 
> > be power cycled. These would seem to have to have been network-initiated events, and the iPad when it came back 
> > online said “Your device has been updated to 18.3.2”. The iPhone 16Pro, was updated to 18.3.2. yesterday and 
> > displayed no unusual message upon power-on. The iMac is an older model Retina 5K 27” from 2014 running MacOS 10.11.6.
>
> I had something similar happen to an Intel Macbook Pro. Yesterday evening I got a pop-up that there was an update 
> available, and was given the option to "Try later tonight", which I accepted.
>
> When I opened the laptop this morning it immediately went through the update process, multiple screens with Apple 
> logos and progress bars, taking a good six minutes to boot. It is now running MacOS Sierra 15.3.2 and seems to be 
> functioning OK, but I wouldn't be surprised to find some things broken like custom SSH settings, etc. that Apple 
> seems to like to mess with during upgrades.
>
> This seemed to be a regular software update except that it waited until I opened the lid this morning rather than 
> happening in the middle of the night.
>
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