AAPL planea una solucion para evitar el ataque de virus.
Apple Plans Fix for iPhone Flaw
By CHRISTOPHER LAWTON
Apple Inc. said Thursday it is working to resolve a security hole in its iPhone and other mobile products that German authorities warned could allow cyber criminals to access confidential information or intercept telephone conversations.
Users are particularly vulnerable when they view Portable Document Format, or PDF, files, which give attackers an opportunity to infect the devices with malicious software, giving them administrative rights to the device, the German Federal Office for Information Security said Wednesday.
Once infected, cyber criminals could read confident information such as passwords, online-banking data, calendars, e-mails and other information, as well as intercept telephone conversations and the location of the user. The security hole is present in several versions of Apple's iOS software on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch products, the agency added.
"Apple takes security very seriously, we're aware of this reported issue and developing a fix that will be available to customers in an upcoming software update," the company said in a statement.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to say when exactly the software update would be made available, or whether Apple was aware of the security hole before Wednesday.
Germany's information-security agency said it hasn't yet observed any attacks on Apple products, but warned that until the hole is closed, users should avoid opening PDF documents from unknown sources, and surf only trusted websites. It added that it was in contact with Apple about the problem. The German Federal Office for Information Security detected a similar security hole in Apple's software last year, which the company promptly fixed.
Write to Christopher Lawton at
christopher.lawton@wsj.com .