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iOS zero-day breaks Apple’s iMessage encryption

  • 21 March 2016
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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Zeljka Zorz - March 21, 2016
 
A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers headed by computer science professor Matthew Green have discovered a zero-day flaw in Apple’s iOS encryption, which could allow attackers to decrypt intercepted iMessages.
 
                                              


 
Not many details about the actual vulnerability have been shared, and won’t be until Apple patches the flaw. According to the Washington Post, the company said that the flaw has been partially fixed in iOS 9 (pushed out last fall), but will be completely removed in iOS 9.3, which is scheduled to be released on Monday (today).
 
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Ssherjj
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Thanks Jasper for the heads up! I'll be waiting for that update!  :)
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Seems to be a sign of the times...recently the first ransomware to target the Mac, in the wild, and now this...I hope that someone over at Apple HQ is sitting up and realising that what has been said for many years, but dismissed by many, is happening...iOS is not as invulnerable as some think or wish to think. :(
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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I agree Baldrick and Apple have been tempting fate for far too long.

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