Don’t do a Hoover!
Today Apple have released an urgent update (9.3.5) that should be applied to all iPhones and iPads. The update prevents people from access a variety of information contained within your email and messages.
The fix was issued after it was discovered that a prominent United Arab Emirates dissident’s phone had been targeted with a previously unknown method of hacking.
The thwarted attack on the human rights activist, Ahmed Mansoor, used a text message that invited him to click on a web link. Instead of clicking, he forwarded the message to researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.
The hack is the first known case of software that can remotely take over a fully up-to-date iPhone 6. Experts at Citizen Lab worked with security company Lookout and determined that the link would have installed a program taking advantage of a three flaws that Apple and others were not aware of. The researchers disclosed their findings on Thursday.
We would advise everybody to update their devices as soon as possible to mitigate copy-cat hackers from using this now widely publicised security flaw.
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