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New iOS Privacy Vulnerability Discovered

14/12/2015

Vulnerability affects a wide range of Apple devices

In collaboration with researchers of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and North Carolina State University researchers of the System Security Lab at TU Darmstadt have identified a privacy-related security vulnerability in the recent iOS version 9

The vulnerability affects a wide range of Apple devices ranging from iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, as well as iPad 2 and later devices. A malicious application may maintain access to Contacts even after its access has been revoked by the user. Apple acknowledged and tackled this problem for the recent iOS version 9.2; see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205635 link

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