A security analyst has caused controversy after discovering a bug within Apple’s iOS software which reportedly leaves popular gadgets such as iPhone, iPod and iPad open to malicious attacks from certain apps which have made their way onto the app store.
Third-party software submissions to the App Store are strictly monitored and this is after some hard-earned approval from Apple. One time NSA man, Charlie Miller found the bug which allegedly would have got itself ingrained into the operating software with the introduction of Javascript coding into last year’s update to iOS version 4.3.
Miller states “Now you could have a program in the App Store like Angry Birds that can run new code on your phone that Apple never had a chance to check.”- Startling stuff that makes us think twice about what we so freely download from the App Store, which until now we had all too much confidence in. The ex-analyst went on to essentially tell the tech world that nothing downloaded on the App Store can be trusted and that he would report his full findings at the SysCan conference in Singapore on November 17th.
Apple is none too pleased with Miller’s accusations it seems and in response has withdrawn his developer license and removed his wares from the App Store. What does that say?
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