ID: IRCNE2013091971
Date: 2013-09-28
According to "computerworld", Apple yesterday released an iOS 7 software update that fixes a security flaw that let users bypass the iPhone lockscreen to access a range of onboard information and online accounts.
A day after iOS 7 was released earlier this month, Forbes' Andy Greenberg reported that a U.S. soldier had somehow uncovered a rather complex series of actions that let him bypass the lockscreen, at least on existing iPhones that updated to the new firmware.
According to Greenberg's account, the user could then access the phone's camera and stored photographs and, more importantly, the ability to share the photos via various associated accounts, and therefore access them: including email, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.
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