The glitch was uncovered just hours
after the company made its new operating system iOS 7 available to download for
users with old Apple devices last Wednesday.
Videos posted online showed how toget around the new lockscreen and gain access to the owner's photographs,
Twitter account and email inbox.
The bug was found to be linked to the
"control centre", a new feature of iOS 7 which allows users to change
volume and brightness settings as well as turn on WiFi and bluetooth.
An Apple spokesman at the time said
it was investigating the flaw and stressed that the company takes security very
seriously.
Users can now download the 7.0.2
version of iOS 7 which has corrected the flaw. The software update is also
available for the iPhone 5s and 5c despite the bug never being demonstrated on
these devices.
Apple took just six days to fix the
security glitch – a quicker response than in the past when the company has been
criticised for reportedly taking as long as two weeks to react to problems.
However there are still other
complaints about iOS 7 identified by Apple customers which are yet to be
addressed.
A group of German hackers has
discovered that lifted fingerprints can be used to open the new iPhone 5s,prompting fears about how secure the new handset is.
The cyber group won a bounty of cash,
booze and Bitcoins after an online competition was set up to see who could hack
into the fingerprint security first.
Other complaints to have arisen over
the new operating system include how long it initially took to download and
criticism of the redesigned interface.
Source: Telegraph
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