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AirDrop Bug Could Let Hackers Silently Plant Malware on Your iPhone or Mac

posted onSeptember 17, 2015
by l33tdawg

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.

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