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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Be Careful Sending Important E-mail from iOS 7

Errors in programming or a bug in Apple's mobile operating system re-discovered. This time the bug is owned by the IOS version 7.1.1. According to one researcher, the bug can make e-mail attachments sent from iOS device 7 is not encrypted.
In his blog created ​​on 23 April, as quoted from ZDNet, Andreas Kurtz who discovered the bug, experiment with the iPhone 4 to create an IMAP e-mail account and try to send an e-mail with attachments.
Apple iOS 7
Illustration of Apple iOS 7 Operating System
He then shut off its iOS devices and try to access the file system with an application. Kurtz then access the data partition in its iOS devices, and access e-mail folders. Apparently, the files that are in e-mail attachments can be seen in the folder without encryption.

Kurtz said, at least the bug has been around since IOS version 7.0.4 and its current version, 7.1.1. Therefore, the same thing he's doing with the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 that run both operating systems. Kurtz has reported the bug to Apple. Although Apple has admitted knowing the bug, but Apple until now has not released a patch for the newest operating system.

Bug in iOS 7 raises many concerns. Therefore, many iPhone and iPad users with the operating system from the corporation. They use iOS devices, as the labor supports. One of them, is to send important emails of the company. To prevent unwanted things, Kurtz suggested that iOS users do not activate Mail Synchronization feature for a while until Apple released a patch for that bug.

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