IPhone Users Urged to Update Software After Security Flaws Are Found
Source: New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO One of the worlds most evasive digital arms dealers is believed to have been taking advantage of three security vulnerabilities in popular Apple products in its efforts to spy on dissidents and journalists.
Investigators discovered that a company called the NSO Group, an Israeli outfit that sells software that invisibly tracks a targets mobile phone, was responsible for the intrusions. The NSO Groups software can read text messages and emails and track calls and contacts. It can even record sounds, collect passwords and trace the whereabouts of the phone user.
In response, Apple on Thursday released a patched version of its mobile software, iOS 9.3.5. Users can get the patch through a normal software update.
Apple fixed the holes 10 days after a tip from two researchers, Bill Marczak and John Scott Railton, at Citizen Lab at the University of Torontos Munk School of Global Affairs, and Lookout, a San Francisco mobile security company.
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