Graham Cluley @ The Mac Security Blog:
In recent weeks the company has seen its products bedevilled with security flaws, said it's too hard to patch users running vulnerable, older versions of its software, and when it has released a security patch for at least some of its at-risk users—seen it fail abysmally to protect against the problem it was supposed to defend.
Meanwhile, against this backdrop, Cupertino has been banning legitimate anti-virus apps from the iOS app store—apparently on a whim.
Can things get worse? Well, apparently they can.
Now news reaches us that some 1,500 approved apps in the so-called "walled garden," famously vetted vigorously by Apple, have been found to contain a serious vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers to spy on communications, steal passwords and bank account information.
Continued : http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/ios-apps-data-vulnerability/
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