For years owners of Apple's iPhones and iPads have unknowingly been left vulnerable to game-changing hacks...
), revealing that hackers quietly developed a system which enabled disparate iOS vulnerabilities to be daisy-chained together to gain complete control of your iPhone or iPad. All owners had to do to be exposed was visit certain websites and Google estimates that thousands of visitors per week did.
Once in, hackers had full access to your photos, contacts, private messages and even encrypted data, such as passwords, held in iOS Keychain - Apple’s password security system. spoke to security experts who described the findings as “terrifying”, “chilling” and likely the work of state-sponsored hackers. Victims “would probably have had no indication that their devices were infected” and it “changes everything we know about iPhone hacking”.
Apple iOS 10, 11 and 12, have been secretly insecure for years. Between them, they support seven generations of iPhones and iPads and a total of 1.4 billion devices.But perhaps the most remarkable thing is all this went undetected by Apple for years, despite the hackers making “some strangely amateurish mistakes”. This includes using tools which weren’t encrypted and hardcoding IP addresses into their malware which could locate the hackers’ own servers.
Which brings us back to the part about Apple devices being reassuringly expensive. In terms of privacy, and while this security breach may be on a scale and of a duration that is unprecedented in mobile , again rivals are not perfect and Apple has issued a fix.
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