{"id":314971,"date":"2019-07-31T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=314971"},"modified":"2019-07-31T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:48:18","slug":"google-discovers-dangerous-imessage-bugs-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/314971-google-discovers-dangerous-imessage-bugs-on-iphone.html","title":{"rendered":"Google discovers dangerous iMessage bugs on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Project Zero security team has discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.chromium.org\/p\/project-zero\/issues\/list?q=label%3AiMessage&amp;can=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>five different bugs<\/strong><\/a> affecting the iMessage app on iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>The bugs allowed attackers to read files off a device remotely by sending a message with certain characters to their victim.<\/p>\n<p>These bugs also allowed attackers to corrupt memory and control applications on the victim&#8217;s iPhone using the same method.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities were all reported to Apple as part of Project Zero&#8217;s 90-day disclosure policy, and Apple said it has since patched the bugs in its iOS 12.4 update.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone users are advised to update to the latest version of iOS 12 to ensure they are protected from these exploits.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/314951-apple-faces-life-after-the-iphone.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple faces life after the iPhone<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Project Zero security team has discovered five different bugs affecting the iMessage app on iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":298132,"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":[40774,167,8883,1125],"class_list":["post-314971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-bugs","tag-google","tag-imessage","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314971"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}