{"id":319109,"date":"2019-09-07T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=319109"},"modified":"2019-09-07T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T04:44:09","slug":"apple-disputes-ios-malware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/319109-apple-disputes-ios-malware-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple disputes iOS &#8220;malware attack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/a-message-about-ios-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disputed<\/a>\u00a0a recent Google security report that described an iPhone malware attack as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/googleprojectzero.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">en masse<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cupertino, California-based technology giant said Friday that the attack &#8212; which used malware to target iPhone users who visited certain websites &#8212; was limited to \u201cfewer than a dozen websites.\u201d The company also confirmed that the attack targeted the Uighur Muslim community in China.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said Google\u2019s post last week on its findings came six months after the issue was patched in iOS, the iPhone and iPad operating system, and added that the attacks were in place for \u201croughly two months, not \u2018two years\u2019 as Google implies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later on Friday, Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google responded to Apple\u2019s statement, saying it stands by \u201cour in-depth research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Project Zero \u201cposts technical research that is designed to advance the understanding of security vulnerabilities, which leads to better defensive strategies,\u201d Google said in a statement. \u201cWill continue to work with Apple and other leading companies to help keep people safe online.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/319091-updated-huawei-p30-pro-runs-android-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Updated Huawei P30 Pro runs Android 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc.\u00a0disputed\u00a0a recent Google security report that described an iPhone malware attack as \u201cen masse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":308513,"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],"class_list":["post-319109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319109"}],"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\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319111,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319109\/revisions\/319111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}