Friday, November 14, 2014

Apple, on the failure of security’Masque Attack’: “No … – 20minutos.es

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A girl walks using its mobile front to a building with the Apple logo on the streets of Beijing. (Gtres)

Earlier this week, we knew that security firm FireEye detected a vulnerability iOS called ‘Masque Attack’ . Now, Apple denies that this vulnerability is actually a breach of security and ensure that no one has been affected by this attack.

According to the firm FireEye, this security hole replaces official applications for other false , so that malicious hackers can divert personal data of users without them realizing it.

As explained FireEye, Apple does not verify the application packages that install developers ‘software’ and other users outside the App Store -through links to another website – are official or not

The hackers. ‘can deflect personal user data From Apple say that this is impossible because they have designed iOS and OS X “with built-in guarantees of security to help protect customers and warn danger before they install a “software” potentially malicious “.

” We have record that no client has been affected by this attack . We encourage users to download only from trusted sources, such as the App Store, and pay attention to the warnings when downloading apps, “said Apple.

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