Dan Pražák Earlier this week, news hit the world that Group FaceTime calls were plagued by a serious security flaw. Thanks to it, users were able to eavesdrop on the other party without the call being answered. After a few days, Apple apologized for the error and on that occasion promised to fix it, but it will not be released until the following week.
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Amaya Toman Originally, the Californian company was supposed to release a corrective update in the form of iOS 12.1.4 already this week. According to information in today's official statement that Apple submitted to a foreign magazine MacRumors, but the release of the system is postponed until next week. For now, Apple has at least blocked group FaceTime calls on its side and fixed the error on its own servers. The company also issued a public apology to all of its customers.
Apple's official statement and apology:
We've fixed a security bug related to Group FaceTime calls on our servers, and we'll release a software update to re-enable the feature next week. Thanks to the Thompson family for reporting the error. We sincerely apologize to our customers who were affected by the error, as well as to anyone who was inconvenienced by it. We appreciate the patience of each individual who waits with us for the entire repair process to be completed.
We want to assure our customers that once our technical team learned the details needed to reproduce the bug, they immediately disabled group FaceTime calls and began working on a fix. We are committed to improving the bug reporting process so that similar reports reach the competent people as quickly as possible. We take the security of our products very seriously and want to continue to strengthen the trust Apple customers have in our company.
When the bug was exploited, it was possible to eavesdrop on basically any user the caller had contact with. Just start a FaceTime video call with anyone from the list, swipe up on the screen and add your own phone number. This instantly started a group FaceTime call without the caller answering, so the caller could hear the other party immediately.
Even on Monday, when foreign magazines publicized the error, Apple managed to block group FaceTime calls. However, the company was informed about the error a week before it was published in the media, but did not respond to the notification and did not even deal with the repair. After all, this is also why he promises to speed up the entire error reporting process in his statement today.
The giant from Cupertino is also facing the first claim. The critical errors were exploited by the lawyer Larry Williams II, who is suing Apple in state court in Houston, and who claims that thanks to the error he was eavesdropped on a conversation with his client. The lawyer thus allegedly violated the oath of secrecy to which he is bound.
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