Thousands of government documents released by Wiki this weekLeaks, showed that the CIA is able to exploit security gaps in Android mobile operating systems and iOS. Company Apple has now issued a statement claiming that most of the vulnerabilities were in the latest official version iOS repaired.
According to the Cupertino company, major security flaws have been fixed iOS already in its latest public full version, which was released in January of this year. These were security vulnerabilities mentioned in documents that WikiLeakwith published this week. Engineers Applu continue to work diligently to "seal" the rest of the other loopholes that the CIA could exploit.
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On Tuesday, the Wiki serverLeaks discovered 8 government documents and files obtained from the CIA's Cyber Intelligence Center. In addition to mentions of vulnerabilities in the Android operating system and Samsung Smart TV contained documents with detailed details about 14 cases of exploitation of security gaps in iOS describing how these flaws can be exploited to track users, monitor their communications, and even take control of their smartphones.
https://twitter.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/839308040775987201
"While our analysis indicates that most of the flaws have already been fixed in the latest version iOS, Apple will continue to work to expeditiously resolve any additional vulnerabilities identified.” Apple In its statement, it did not specify which of the 14 vulnerabilities had been patched. It also did not mention when it plans to patch the rest of the security flaws – users iOS However, he assured that this will happen as soon as possible. “We always encourage our customers to download the latest available version for the best security.” iOS,” he states Apple.
Source: TheVerge
