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Apple says "t's working on fix for iOS 7 lockscreen bypass flaw"

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/20/apple-working-fix-ios-7-lockscreen-bypass-flaw

Apple says it will fix an embarrassing security flaw on it's new iOS 7 software which hackers showed can bypass the lockscreen and access personal data. The flaw, discovered within hours of iOS 7 becoming publicly available, can be exploited on the iPhone 4S and 5 and gives access to personal data including email, photos, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. It is exploited via the Control Center function, which is found by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. That offers access to the phone user's alarms, a calculator, and the camera, as well as frequently-used settings such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Airplane mode. From the alarms screen, a hacker can use a combination of button presses to access the multitasking manager, bypassing the lockscreen. That offers access to some user data including photos, email, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr accounts: an intruder can email or delete photos, send tweets, read and make Facebook posts and messages, and send text messages, though not read email. "Apple takes user security very seriously," an Apple spokesman told the Guardian. "We are aware of this issue, and will deliver a fix in a future software update."

• Typically, Apple has taken at least two weeks to fix such flaws when they have been found.

• Security flaws have been found previously in Apple's iOS mobile operating system on both the iPhone 4 in 2010 and the iPad in 2011 that had to be fixed by a security update.

• Apple released iOS 7 as a free update for existing iPhone owners on 18 September, causing a surge in UK and German internet traffic.

• The Guardian reviewed iOS 7 on 19 September.

There isn't much to agree on however, I think it's embarrassing how Apple was so hyped up about the new iOS 7 which turned out to have problems which now they've started to fix. In some ways this is kind of a deja vu because the iphone 5 also had many problems and bad comments hence they had to straight away make the iphone 5S and C.