The Apple iPhone is not sure: that's why you should update now

500 million Apple devices can easily be hacked – your iPhone could be one. It's a good thing that you can do something quickly.

It is almost scary to see how easily researchers at the University of Darmstadt have access to various Apple products. The demonstration Vulnerability affects about 500 million devices from iPhone to Mac and can be operated with wireless and the simplest ways.

Hacking Apple devices through a unique feature

In a detailed video, the experts showed how they were able to turn off six devices at a time. All that was missing was inexpensive, commercially available equipment, such as a WLAN card and a programmable card.

And who is guilty? A practical feature common to Apple devices: Airdrop. It allows users to easily transfer data from one Apple device to another. The underlying technology, however, is anything but safe, since the "Apple Wireless Link" (AWDL), which should actually prevent attacks, can be easily fooled.

Here's how the experts tackled Apple piracy:

• Bluetooth is used to "storm" the target device.
• This activates AWDL.
• Because Apple does not correctly check the target device's entries, a flood of requests results in excessive requests.
• The device turns off.

You should do it now to protect your iPhone

In fact, the serious problem has a very simple solution. This is sufficient if you are installing the latest version of the operating system. As the researchers have already informed Apple of their results and have published them only after filling the gap, an update of For updates on iOS 12.1, macOS 10.14.1, tvOS 5.1 and watchOS 5.1 is quite sufficient.

Beware of other disadvantages

At least in the case of iOS 12.1 and watchOS 5.1, you still have to be careful. In both cases, the update had other unpleasant side effects.

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