{"id":201898,"date":"2017-03-08T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201898"},"modified":"2017-03-08T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T10:03:11","slug":"many-ios-vulnerabilities-in-wikileaks-release-already-patched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/201898-many-ios-vulnerabilities-in-wikileaks-release-already-patched.html","title":{"rendered":"Many iOS vulnerabilities in WikiLeaks release already patched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/07\/apple-says-most-vulnerabilities-in-wikileaks-docs-are-already-patched\/\" target=\"_blank\">told TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong> that many of the vulnerabilities disclosed in the WikiLeaks\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/ciav7p1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vault 7<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0release have been patched.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/201910-wikileaks-exposes-alleged-cia-hacking-programme.html\">WikiLeaks\u00a0announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it had published a new series of leaks about the CIA\u00a0&#8211; Vault 7 &#8211; on 7 March.<\/p>\n<p>The leaks contain details of exploits the CIA used on\u00a0connected devices.<\/p>\n<p>Included was\u00a0an &#8220;arsenal&#8221; of\u00a0malware based on zero-day exploits, which the CIA could use to control and exfiltrate data from iPhones and products running iOS.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said it is committed to safeguarding customers\u2019 privacy and security, and its device security &#8220;represents the best data security available to consumers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While our initial analysis indicates that many of the issues leaked were already patched in the latest iOS, we will continue work to rapidly address any identified vulnerabilities,&#8221; said Apple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always urge customers to download the latest iOS to make sure they have the most recent security updates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/195014-wikileaks-leaker-chelsea-manning-to-be-freed.html\">WikiLeaks leaker Chelsea Manning to be freed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple said many of the vulnerabilities disclosed in the WikiLeaks Vault 7 release have been patched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[605,691,1125,41828,613],"class_list":["post-201898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-vault-7","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201898"}],"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=201898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202018,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201898\/revisions\/202018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}