iPhone Alert: Apple Accidentally Introduced A Critical Security Vulnerability In New iOS 12.4 - Forbes

iPhone Alert: Apple Accidentally Introduced A Critical Security Vulnerability In New iOS 12.4 Forbes

All iPhones (5S and later), iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation are vulnerable to malicious hackers due to an Apple error. No patch yet. (Photo by Jaap Arriens) The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system released late last month reintroduced a critical security bug that makes all iPhones and iPads that updated to iOS 12.4 vulnerable to malicious hackers. The vulnerability dubbed SockPuppet was first discovered by Ned Williamson, a security researcher at Google Project Zero and was subsequently patched by Apple when it released iOS 12.3 on May 13, or 99 days ago. The...