![]() ![]() I’m sure they have, and having assessed the risk, Apple decided to make it a low priority. Our research and methodology have been responsibly disclosed to Apple ![]() If you put your passwords in your unencrypted contacts field then this hack is not your biggest problem. Pity you didn’t then, because that would’ve been a marginally more impressive demo. But you can also update the software by going into phone settings, click 'General' then. The researchers said they could have crafted the app to steal passwords. Apple users with the affected software should get alerts prompting them to update the phones iOS software. To be honest, if I give a perfect stranger my unlocked phone and then watch while they jailbreak it so they hacK replace “components” of the contacts app, then I’d be a lot more worried about my mental state than hacking my contacts list.Īnd why did they go to the trouble of replacing a ‘component of the Contacts’ app? Why couldn’t they just put an app on the store and give it permission to access the contacts? Is there something the contacts app is doing that isn’t available to third party developers?įor the purposes of the demonstration they had the app crash.
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