{"id":177255,"date":"2016-08-26T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=177255"},"modified":"2016-08-26T09:27:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:27:35","slug":"serious-iphone-security-vulnerability-update-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/177255-serious-iphone-security-vulnerability-update-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Serious iPhone security vulnerability &#8211; update now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released iOS 9.3.5,\u00a0an urgent iPhone and iPad software update\u00a0which\u00a0includes a patch for a serious security vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>The patch comes after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.org\/2016\/08\/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae\/\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen Lab<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lookout.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/trident-pegasus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lookout Security<\/a><\/strong> reported that zero-day bugs\u00a0in iOS were being used to spy on political dissidents and journalists in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Malware exploiting the\u00a0flaws can track your phone,\u00a0read text messages and emails, record sounds, collect passwords, and gather information about your contacts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/8\/25\/12651206\/apple-iphone-security-threat-update-now\">The Verge reported<\/a><\/strong> that Apple confirmed those testing iOS 10 are not at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exploits are addressed in the latest iOS 10 seed,&#8221; Apple told The Verge.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the iPhone and iOS<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/177123-dont-remove-the-iphones-headphone-jack-warns-steve-wozniak.html\"><strong>Don\u2019t remove the iPhone\u2019s headphone jack, warns Steve Wozniak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174560-latest-ios-10-beta-adds-100-new-emoji.html\"><strong>Latest iOS 10 beta adds 100 new emoji<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/168441-the-iphones-that-can-get-ios-10.html\"><strong>The iPhones that can get iOS 10<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/168373-apple-unveils-ios-10-all-the-awesome-new-features.html\"><strong>Apple unveils iOS 10 \u2013 all the awesome new features<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone and iPad owners are advised to update to iOS 9.3.5 immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[36,38687,39,1125],"class_list":["post-177255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-ios-9-3-5","tag-ipad","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177257,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177255\/revisions\/177257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}