Stefan Mileschin

But... but it is supposed to be perfect

Google researchers have shared details of five flaws in Apple's iMessage software that could make its devices vulnerable to attack.

Even though Apple likes to tout itself as the most secure software in the world, it is often let down by its software teams who have a nasty habit of being unable to programme clocks.

In this case, the researchers said the vulnerability was so severe that the only way to rescue a targeted iPhone would be to delete all the data off it. Another example, they said, could be used to copy files off a device without requiring the owner to do anything to aid the hack. Apple released fixes last week. But the researchers said they had also flagged a sixth problem to Apple, which had not been rectified in the update to its mobile operating system.

Apple's own notes about iOS 12.4 indicate that the unfixed flaw could give hackers a means to crash an app or execute commands of their own on recent iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches if they were able to discover it.

Apple has not commented on this specific issue but has urged users to install the new version of iOS, which addresses Google's other discoveries as well as a further range of glitches and threats.

One of the two Google researchers involved - Natalie Silvanovich - intends to share more details of her findings at a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas next month.

Meanwhile, German researchers have found a flaw in Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL), a protocol installed on over 1.2 billion Apple devices which means that hackers can track users, crash the shiny and intercept files transferred between devices via man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.

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