Unlike most intermittent and boring iOS package update Apple deploys , you should n’t hold off around to deploy the latest one it just released . That ’s because it let in a critical patch the company rushed out after discovering some troubling security defect that Israeli hack were exploiting to gain access to iPhone users ' text subject matter , email , and contacts , record strait , hoard passwords , and even trace the gimmick ' locations .
It’sbeing reported that the flaw is specific to the iPhone 6 , but it ’d be wise to update any twist you use pronto , include your iPad . To upgrade to iOS 9.3.5 right now , go toSettings > General > Software Update and snap " Download Now . "
Apple was first alerted of the issueover a week ago , when two security researchers tipped it off after hearing from human right field lawyer Ahmed Mansoor , who ’d received some suspicious textual matter messages promising " secrets " about overrefinement befall in prisons in the UAE if he sink in a finical connection . After some digging , the researchers determined that the malware had been created by an Israeli outfit known as the NSO Group who used it to target and intimidate objector . It haspreviously flummox heatfor allegedly betray like software program to foreign governments ,
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Mansoor did n’t click the link , but if he had , it would have been big trouble according toa reportreleased Thursday by the University of Toronto ’s Citizen Lab , where Mansoor initially forward his suspicious messages . " Once infected , Mansoor ’s phone would have become a digital spy in his sack , capable of employing his iPhone ’s camera and microphone to snoop on activity in the locality of the gadget , recording his WhatsApp and Viber calls , logging messages sent in peregrine chat apps , and tracking his movements . "
Bottom line : even if you are n’t at all worried some repressive authorities would go out of its way to track you 24/7 , who knows who else might want to peek at your individual stuff . Get thee to your configurations !
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