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CERTFR-2018-AVI-475 : Multiples vulnérabilités dans Apple iOS (09 octobre 2018)
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Apple iOS. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un contournement de la politique de sécurité et une atteinte à la confidentialité des données.

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Have you noticed how iOS has become buggier and less polished in recent years? Apple has noticed too, and is putting in place a plan to make things better.

Video: Secure your iPhone and iPad: Change these iOS 11 privacy and security settings now.

Apple is going to slow the pace at which it crams new features into iOS -- in favor of pushing out more polished releases, claims a Bloomberg report.

It's about time.

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Apple has just released iOS 9.3.4, the latest versions of its mobile operating system for iPhone and iPad users, and owners of the device...

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Apple released updates on Monday that will protect owners of iPhones, iPads, iMacs, MacBooks, iMac Pros, Apple Watches, and (phew!) Apple TVs from having toerags crash their devices.

The bizarre bug was in how Apple products handled a Unicode symbol representing a letter from the south Indian language of Telugu.

When, for instance, vulnerable versions of iOS displayed the character they would get their knickers in a twist, causing the app to crash.

Fortunately updating Apple operating systems is a pretty painless process.

For instance, on an iMac you just need to open App Store, and select Updates to see what updates are waiting to be installed.

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Beware! A new bug can crash iOS and macOS with a single text message
RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO SEND THIS TEXT BOMB TO ANYONE.

Be careful what you click on.

Abraham Masri, a Twitter user with the rather wonderful handle of @cheesecakeufo, has shared publicly a malicious link that is capable of crashing iOS and macOS when received through Apple's Messages app.

The link, which I'm only going to reproduce here as an image, points to a GitHub page.

Clicking on the link can cause your Messages application to crash on iOS and Mac devices, and you may find other peculiar behaviour occurs such as being returned to your lock screen.

It turns out that there's some pretty funky-looking code on that webpage.

Something about the so-called ChaiOS bug's code gives your Apple device a brainstorm. Ashamed about the mess it gets itself in, Messages decides the least embarrassing thing to do is to crash.

Nasty. But, thankfully, more of a nuisance than something that will lead to data being stolen from your computer or a malicious hacker being able to access your files.

Readers with long memories will recall that Apple users have been bedevilled by text bomb vulnerabilities like this in the past.

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