I advise all those with iPhones to apply the newst update...

[Summer-Love]

Apparently the previous iOS contained a bug that left your phone susceptible to hackers and identity theft.
I had someone steal my credit card information a couple of months ago, and it's possible that it was due to this error. No more online banking for me!

Stay safe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...n-identity-theft-18-months-experts-claim.html

 

[Viola Lovegood]

Apparently the previous iOS contained a bug that left your phone susceptible to hackers and identity theft.
I had someone steal my credit card information a couple of months ago, and it's possible that it was due to this error. No more online banking for me!

Stay safe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...n-identity-theft-18-months-experts-claim.html

Thanks for sharing!

 

[mercyshooter]

I advise not to buy Apple stuff!

 

[badbadboy]

Apparently the previous iOS contained a bug that left your phone susceptible to hackers and identity theft.
I had someone steal my credit card information a couple of months ago, and it's possible that it was due to this error. No more online banking for me!

Stay safe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...n-identity-theft-18-months-experts-claim.html

Thanks I did my updates a few days ago. Easy if you sign up for automatic updates.

There was an email blast from MacScan reminding people to do this update because the hacking could go across different platforms.

 

[Violet]

Personally I am holding off on this update. Quite a few people have said their phones were bricked after installing it (especially when installing while not connected to a computer), meaning the phone wouldn't function and had to be reset and everything reinstalled from iTunes backup with the previous version of the iOS - so be sure to fully back up your phone first and don't install the update at a time where you really need your phone right away, in case anything goes wrong. I wouldn't do it by automatic updates or update it without backing it up and being connected to your computer, (and I also wouldn't do any iOS update that way).

In addition this and the last version of iOS appear to have some user dissatisfaction.

The potential for security breach only occurs while connected to a public network (such as wi-fi at a restaurant, coffee shop, hotel, etc). I tend to assume public networks are not very secure anyway and don't use them, especially not for anything important or sensitive. This breach potential is also only on certain applications - generally Apple apps such as Safari, Calendars (if you have it linked with internet) and Apple Mail, possibly Facebook (not an exhaustive list, just examples) - not sure yet if this means if you have your web-based mail set up to be accessible through the Mail app that it could potentially be insecure when accessed over a public network but I would assume it does unless/until you read credible info otherwise. Furthermore, the breach can only occur on info you are currently transmitting, it doesn't make someone able to read everything stored on your phone/email/browser.

By the way, iOS didn't "contract" a bug, a bug is not the same as a virus, it's just a flaw in the design that they overlooked which made it vulnerable to possible hacking.

Thanks for sharing this, I think we all need to be more aware about the info we are sending on phones or computers when using public wi-fi.

 

[badbadboy]

Yes there have been reports of the dreaded "white screen" which reminds former PC users of the "blue screen of death".


http://mashable.com/2014/01/22/iphone-screen-of-death/

On Friday Apple announced a fix to a security bug in its iOS 7 system. Saturday Web security experts have parsed the patch to figure out what exactly the problem was… And apparently it’s a doozy.

Wired has all of the gory details:

“[The] terse description in Apple’s announcement yesterday had some of the internet’s top crypto experts wondering aloud about the exact nature of the bug. Then, as they began learning the details privately, they retreated into what might be described as stunned silence. “Ok, I know what the Apple bug is,” tweeted Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins. “And it is bad. Really bad.”

The culprit of what may be one of Apple’s biggest security snafus is an extra “goto” in one part of the authentication code, Wired reported. That spurious line of code bypasses the rest of the authentication protocols.

The bug could could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be encrypted, according to a Reuters report which was issued late on Friday night.

Meanwhile, ZDNet notes that macs may have been left vulnerable.

[Update: Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller sent us this comment about the continuing vulnerability in macs. "We are aware of this issue and already have a software fix that will be released very soon." (i.e. iOS 6 and 7 have been patched, OS X 1.9 is the first version to exhibit the vulnerability and is not currently patched, but will be soon. Until then, don't connect to any public wifi with your OS X 10.9 Macs.)]

As ZDNet’s contributing editor Larry Seltzer wrote:

Make no mistake about it, this is a very serious bug. The bug makes it fairly straightforward to intercept and decrypt SSL/TLS communications, probably the most important security protocol there is today.

Here’re more details, on the patch from ZDNet.

Photo via Flickr user aditza121

 

[Lo-ki]

NO Apple toys here

Never have ..never will..

Loki

 

[Hippolytus]

Checked and the update for OS X 10.9.1 is available. (OS 10.9.2)

 

[mounty]

I just updated mine did now. Wondering if I did a mistake?

 

[badbadboy]

I just updated mine did now. Wondering if I did a mistake?

I did mine last week for iPad and iPhone. If anything both are working better now. Faster, much better battery life and since I use a MacBook Pro the OS update made sense too. If you read up on this security breach there are hints that the bug could appear across these platforms.