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Your iPhone Needs iOS 10.1 Update: Hackers Can Hijack Handsets Using JPEGs and PDFs

By Mohender | Update Date: Oct 27, 2016 07:45 AM EDT

The majority of the users possess an iPhone these days. Those who have an iOS 10.1 are advised to update it as early as possible. Hence the hackers will be prevented from easily hijacking your device. They are tricky; they simply ask you to click on malicious files.

At times you might feel giddy when you are asked to update your iPhone immediately, but it is the demand of the hour.

Few of you might have updated your device a couple of months ago as there was a security flaw enabling a remote attack to succeed in installing malware into the iPhone.

If you update your iPhone it shall be prevented from a security flaw named CVE-2016-4673, which assists the hackers while hacking your iPhone and maybe iPad or iPod. They will simply ask you to look at a malicious JPEG image or to open a malicious PDF file. This happens either in an email or a website.

A malicious code shall be executed on your phones operating system and the hackers are able to peep into your device. They can easily access your apps and trace data on your phone.

There are various other critical security vulnerabilities like a bug which enables apps to pull details from your Address Book; it is a remote code execution flaw present in the browser engine Web Kit. Attackers can remotely eves drop on face conversations.

You are advised to update all your Apple products as there are eight security flaws on apple watches, 16 security flaws in MacOS Sierra and 10 bugs on Apple TV.

The simplest way to update your device is while going on to settings, hit general and finally hit software update. This is also possible if you lug your device to the computers and you can download the updated software from iTunes store.

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