Apple is a very jealous company with the security of its mobile devices, and the difficulty that has been so far to unlock the iPad with the technique known as jailbreak demonstrates this. But even Apple, as if it were the mythical Achilles, has its weak point; your heel. And it's so simple with the PDF file reader. This format, apparently so innocuous and inoffensive, has been responsible for a German IT security company taking the colors out of the Cupertino multinational, as we learned today through the newspaper El País.
The key, according to BSI (the entity that reported the security failure), would be iOS 4.3.3, the latest version of Apple's operating system, which is installed on iPad, iPad 2, and the last two on iPhone, as well as the iPod Touch. The problem would arise when opening a PDF document would release malicious content on the system, which could compromise the privacy of the data stored on the device.
The type of information that can compromise the harmful file that would be contained in the PDF files refers to everything that is stored in the memory of the terminal. In other words, whoever controlled that malicious file could access images, videos, contacts, passwords or browsing history of the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. At the moment, it is not known if this violation of mobile devices also exposes the security of devices with previous versions of the system.
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