Apple says CIA vulnerabilities are now fixed

A little over a day ago we told you how Wikileaks had published a disturbing documentation in which it was ensured that the CIA had a team of hackers specially dedicated to looking for iPhone security flaws to be able to access its data without the permission of its owners, be able to use your camera and microphone and thus be able to spy on them comfortably from a distance. Apple could not take long to react to a news of this type, and it has, ensuring less than 24 hours later that most of the security holes mentioned in the documents are already fixed.

In the original news we talked about zero-day vulnerabilities, that is, completely unknown, to prevent Apple from being able to solve them easily. But according to the company itself "many of the vulnerabilities are already resolved and will continue working to solve the rest."

Apple is deeply committed to maintaining the privacy and security of its customers. The technology embedded in the iPhone today represents the best security available to your customers today, and we are continually working to uphold this claim. Our products and software are designed to be quickly updated in the hands of our customers, with almost 80% of users using the latest version of our operating system.

Although our initial analyzes indicate that many of the security flaws leaked today are already fixed in the latest version of iOS, we will continue to work to find and fix any other vulnerabilities. That is why we always encourage our customers to update the latest version of iOS available to make sure they have the latest security updates installed.

These words from Apple are quite reassuring, especially since The Wikileaks documents, in addition to revealing these failures found by the CIA, ensures that the American agency has lost control over them and many have fallen into unauthorized hands. If it is bad that a state security agency can spy on you, it is even worse that "anyone" can do it.


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