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Another bug in Apple’s iOS

by on11 November 2014

You get what you pay for

Hackers continue to achieve the impossible. They have found a bug in the perfect Apple iOS operating system which gives all your data in your iPhones and iPads vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

Cybersecurity firm FireEye details about the vulnerability on its blog saying the bug enables hackers to access devices by persuading users to install malicious applications with tainted text messages, emails and Web links. The malicious application can then be used to replace genuine, trusted apps that were installed through Apple's App Store, including email and banking programs, with malicious software through a technique that FireEye has called a "Masque Attack."

These attacks can be used to steal banking and email login credentials or other sensitive data, according to FireEye.

"It is a very powerful vulnerability and it is easy to exploit," FireEye Senior Staff Research Scientist Tao Wei said in an interview.

FireEye disclosed the vulnerability to Apple in July and representatives of the company said they were working to fix the bug, according to Wei. Apple has adopted its usual method of responding to security threats which is to put its fingers in its ears and shout no comment very loudly.

The cure for the bug is to take your iPhone and Ipad and hit it with a hammer. You then buy a more secure device for half the price.

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