Update your iPhone now: Hackers can easily hijack your phone using JPEGs and PDF files
Yeah, it probably seems a drag to have to keep updating your iPhone so frequently, and everyone gets lazy sometimes. Plus, if you've been keeping up with the news, you probably already updated it in August/ September to patch against a serious security flaw enabling the first ever remote attack to succeed in installing malware on the iPhone.
Whatever it is, stop being lazy and update your iPhone, because this latest patch is crucial. It prevents a truly nasty security flaw, known as CVE-2016-4673, whereby attackers can hijack your iPhone, iPad or iPod simply by tricking you into looking at a malicious JPEG image or opening a malicious PDF or font file, either in an email, or on a website.
The malicious files remotely execute malicious code on your phone's operating system which enables hackers to take over your device and use it to access your apps and look at your data, among other things.
