"The safest device in the world": Google hackers have been able to break into iPhone devices
Apple boasts that the iPhone is the safest smartphone in the world, but it is Google's rival, and also responsible for the Android operating system, that has identified two serious security holes exposed by each iPhone owner. If you haven't updated your iPhone yet, you should do so soon
"The safest device in the world": Google hackers have been able to break into iPhone devices
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Giant Google, one of Apple's biggest rivals, has been able to break into iPhones for almost a year by exploiting a number of weaknesses discovered in the iPhone operating system. Google's "Project Zero" hacker team, considered white hat hackers, are looking for damage to help fix, detect and use iOS operating system deficiencies to make iPhones vulnerable and hackable. Over the past few months, Apple has released a number of urgent security updates, and even released them to iPhones that have already stopped updating frequently. Now that seems to be one of the reasons, this is a Google company that has found some serious security holes.
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To the full articleAccording to Samuel Gross, a member of the Google hacker team, the breakout seems to be much easier to accomplish than many people think. All you have to do is send the malicious link to the target iPhone, wait for the user to click on it, and then the whole device will open remotely for hackers who want to steal information from it. In fact, attackers only need the iPhone's Apple ID account to risk it. This map is only a matter of a few minutes, and hackers can steal all the information on the device, including passwords, e-mail correspondence and messages, along with activating functions such as the microphone and cameras. And of course, all without the user's explicit consent and without his knowledge.
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The breakthrough the team used to hack into the iPhone is in working memory, and was first identified by Gross himself while working on a project with Natalie Silvanovich, a security researcher from the same team. The project was completed last July and published in August. It's important to note that the bug has since been reported to Apple, and they fixed it in an update to iOS 12.4. However, Gross and his team found another loophole, which they reported a few months later, and it too was fixed - this time on iOS 13.2 operating system, released last October. In fact, if you haven't updated your iPhone in the last two months, you should do it now. Gross said he hopes Apple will adopt new security measures based on his research and protect iPhone users from future vulnerabilities of the kind.
