Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), today he officially apologized for the very serious problem in iOS 12 which allowed malicious people to exploit the group video calling feature via FaceTime. Launched with iOS 12.1, this new feature of FaceTime offers the possibility to make video calls in groups of up to 32 people, but those from Apple did not discover a security problem that allowed them to listen before they started.
Apple has been warned about the fact that the initiator of a group FaceTime video call can listen, before the called person answers, to everything he says, or to everything that happens around him. Apple immediately blocked the function when the security problem was publicly revealed, and announced that iOS 12.1.4 will be launched this week to solve the problem, but today he announced that this will not happen, in the end.
Apple apologizes for the serious FaceTime problem in iOS 12
Apple announced today that its engineers have solved the FaceTime problem in iOS 12, and that only next week it will release iOS 12.1.4 to solve the problem for all customers around the world. Apple has apologized to customers who were affected by this issue, also saying that it works hard to provide the best security measures for the products it sells, although that doesn't happen with every iOS update. of the
We have fixed the Group FaceTime security bug on Apple's servers and we will issue a software update to re-enable the feature for users next week. We thank the Thompson family for reporting the bug. We sincerely apologize to our customers who were affected and all who were concerned about this security issue. We appreciate everyone's patience as we complete this process. We want to assure our customers that as soon as our engineering team became aware of the details necessary to reproduce the bug, they quickly disabled Group FaceTime and began work on the fix. We are committed to improving the process by which we receive and escalate these reports, in order to get them to the right people as fast as possible. We take the security of our products extremely seriously and we are committed to continuing to earn the trust Apple customers place in us.
Apple apologized two days after the problem went around the world, and the attorney general of the state of New York announced that he is opening an investigation to find out how serious the problem is, and why it appeared. Having said that, now we just have to wait for Apple to release iOS 12.1.4 for users all over the world, and see if the claims of the Americans are real, or if other serious problems with iOS will be discovered.
