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New security flaw on iPhone lock screen: Contacts and photos at risk

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bug iphoneA few days ago, due to an error in the lock screen of the iOS 8.1 operating system, there was a risk of exposing personal information such as phonebooks, messages, etc. While Apple acknowledged the bug and released iOS 8.1.3 version with patches just a day ago, another new way to bypass the iPhone’s lock pin has been discovered that will help you peek into phone numbers and picture collections.

This is the latest bug Software tricks alone are not enough to test. In this case, in addition to the iPhone program, you also need to adopt a strategy in the case of hardware.

First make a phone call using the voice dial of your iPhone 4 or 4S. Open the SIM tray of the smartphone with a small pin or paper clip in the middle of the dial. You will then be able to access the phone interface, which so far only gives access to the phonebook and photos in the received news.

To avoid that bug (as much as possible), turn off the voice dial option on your iPhone and / or enable Siri (if any). This is because the pre-Siri voice dialing feature is thought to have this flaw.

However, the iPhone 5 has not yet been found to have any of the above software bugs.

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