Apple’s iPhone runs a miniature version of OS X, the operating system that powers Mac computers. So it’s fitting that Apple designed the iPhone to check for security updates whenever users fire up iTunes with their iPhone attached. But it might surprise iPhone users to learn that the latest security update available for the iPhone dates back to February, and that a number of serious security vulnerabilities that Apple long ago patched in OS X remain unaddressed in the most recent version of the iPhone. In seeking confirmation of this, I spoke recently with Charlie Miller, one of the foremost OS X and iPhone security researchers. Miller confirmed that the iPhone updater tells users that if they have version 1.1.4 installed then they are running the most current version. The problem is that this update does not include fixes for a slew of security holes in the Safari Web [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 am and under category News.
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