Apple iOS 9.3.3: Update Your iPhone, Or Hackers Could Steal Passwords With A Text

If you haven’t updated your iPhone this week, do it now.

The latest version of the Apple iPhone operating system, iOS 9.3.3, as well as OS X 10.11.16 for computers, tvOS 9.2.2 for Apple TV and watchOS 2.2.2 for Apple Watches patches a vulnerability that could let someone hack your phone with a corrupted image file, 9to5 Mac reported. In other words, if you don’t update your equipment, a basic text message could put your passwords, photos and other data in danger.

The issue was recently uncovered by Cisco Talos, a threat intelligence organization. It found that a vulnerability in Apple’s Image I/O API system allows the way that a certain TIFF file, a kind of image, is rendered to be hijacked. That means any app on your phone that uses the Image I/O API system could be at risk — Messages, Mail, Safari, et cetera, the Guardian reported.

In some cases, you don’t even have to open the file. You might not even know your phone was exposed, according to Digital Trends. For the full article click here 

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