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Apple Issued Emergency Updates to Fix a Flaw That Allows Highly Invasive Spyware to Infect Its Products

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The scary part of the issue that Apple is implementing a fix for is that you don’t have to “click” on anything to be infected.

“The spyware, called Pegasus, used a novel method to invisibly infect an Apple device without the victim’s knowledge for as long as six months. Known as a ‘zero click remote exploit,’ it is considered the Holy Grail of surveillance because it allows governments, mercenaries and criminals to secretly break into a victim’s device without tipping them off.”

The virtual IT world becomes more dangerous and less secure every day.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
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