AirDrop Bug Could Let Hackers Silently Plant Malware on Your iPhone or Mac
Do you have AirDrop enabled on your iPhone or Mac?
Maybe you'll think again after watching a video made by Australian security researcher Mark Dowd.
Dowd has uncovered a major vulnerability in the current versions of iOS and OS X, that could allow a hacker to install a malicious app on your phone wirelessly, from close proximity, with no obvious warning to you that anything suspicious has occurred. The vulnerability depends upon AirDrop, the over-the-air file-sharing technology used by OS X and iOS, being enabled — but does not require the intended victim to accept a file being sent to them.