Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Beware: a security hole in non-jailbroken iOS devices allows apps to "keylog" you




It seems that a new breach in iOS allows malicious apps to "sniff" and record touch input, as well as key press events, enabling wrongdoers to take advantage of a user's valuable information. According to FireEye,a network security company that discovered the flaw, even non-jailbroken iOS mobile devices are sucseptible to this security threat, even these that run the latest version of the platform – 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6.



FireEye explains that they have developed a "monitoring app", which takes advantage of both the multitasking and the "background app refresh" features ...

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