Apple iPhone and Mac vulnerable to data theft yet again

Apple iOS has been in a lot of trouble lately for its flaws, bugs and security issues. Yet again, according to online reports, researchers have found major security flaws in around 1,500 iOS apps. These apps are vulnerable to hackers who could cash in on these apps to steal passwords, bank account information or other sensitive information.

Basically, some of the developers haven’t updated to the newest version of the code, which has left these apps open and vulnerable to attack. Essentially, how this works is that a hacker exploits the SSL security certificate of the iOS and these open apps allow them to generate a fake Wi-Fi hotspot access to a user’s data on that same Wi-Fi connection. This in turn makes using public Wi-Fi quite dangerous.

SourceDNA scanned over 1 million apps available on the App Store to see if they are vulnerable, and found that out of the total, around 1,500 iPhone and iPad apps are open and vulnerable to the security attacks. Considering the vulnerability, SourceDNA urges Apple users to check if their most used apps are vulnerable to the security flaw, using their search tool.

Other than this, the Apple OS X 10.10 is also vulnerable to hack attack. The OS X 10.10 is still vulnerable to the ‘Rootpipe’ flaw, which was discovered last October. The Rootpipe flaw allows a hidden backdoor access to a system, opening up root ingress in a system for a hacker. Although with the recent OS X 10.10.3 patch update, Apple intended to patch this vulnerability, the older versions of OS X were left vulnerable.