{"id":1211,"date":"2014-02-27T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diligex.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2017-12-13T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:53:35","slug":"secured-connection-vulnerabilities-on-apple-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diligex.com\/2014\/02\/secured-connection-vulnerabilities-on-apple-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Secured Connection Vulnerabilities on Apple Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1212\" src=\"https:\/\/diligex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Apple-Potential-Security-Flaw-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"apple security flaw\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diligex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Apple-Potential-Security-Flaw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diligex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Apple-Potential-Security-Flaw-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/diligex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Apple-Potential-Security-Flaw.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Are you like most of us and own and use an Apple device (phone, laptop, or tablet)? Unfortunately, an extremely concerning security flaw has been reported that&#8217;s so bad that developers won&#8217;t even discuss details (to prevent giving hackers insight into how to exploit the hack).<\/p>\n<p>The security flaw affects SSL\/TLS connections for the devices, which normally prevent eavesdropping on your communications. If you use an iOS or OS X device, your communications could potentially be intercepted through what is known as a &#8220;man in the middle&#8221; attack&#8211; without your knowledge in any way, your &#8220;secured&#8221; connections could be intercepted in plain text by an attacker.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an iOS device (iPhone, iPad), an update to correct this vulnerability was released on Friday to correct the problem.\u00a0<strong>I urge everybody that uses this device to immediately update iOS to version 7.0.6<\/strong>. If you are using an OS X device (iMac, Macbook), there is no patch currently available to correct this. This vulnerability affects Safari as well as most iCal, Mac Mail, and numerous other applications. Until a patch is released by Apple and installed on your machine,<strong>\u00a0I recommend using exclusively Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox for internet browsing and avoiding the use of any other internet-enabled programs for which security is a concern.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More details regarding the problem are available from Gizmodo, along with a more in-depth analysis of the nature of the vulnerability:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-apples-huge-security-flaw-is-so-scary-1529041062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-apples-huge-security-flaw-is-so-scary-1529041062<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you like most of us and own and use an Apple device (phone, laptop, or tablet)? Unfortunately, an extremely concerning security flaw has been reported that&#8217;s so bad that developers won&#8217;t even discuss details (to prevent giving hackers insight into how to exploit the hack). The security flaw affects SSL\/TLS connections for the devices, which normally prevent eavesdropping on &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/diligex.com\/2014\/02\/secured-connection-vulnerabilities-on-apple-devices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-os","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Secured Connection Vulnerabilities on Apple 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