Apple has issued a sharply worded rebuttal to Google's claims that iOS security vulnerabilities exposed iPhone users to hackers for years, calling the allegations overstated and 'narrowly focused.'
Dalvin BrownApple has issued a sharply worded rebuttal to Google's claims that iOS security vulnerabilities exposed iPhone users to hackers for years.
The tech giant goes on to outline the ways it believes Google's blog post was misleading to consumers. Apple starts by saying that the attacks weren't"en masse," as Google suggested. Only a few dozen websites had targeted a minority community in China, Apple said.Google's investigation, which was executed by an elite bug-finding team, found that a collection of malicious websites were visited thousands of times per week.
Apple acknowledged that users were open to a"sophisticated attack," however it says that the flaws were fixed 10 days after it learned of the exploits.
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