One of the great themes of our age is cyber security. As the world becomes increasingly more digital, criminals do, too. Taking advantage of the weak points in our equipment and software to extract information and money from their victims, coming to affect even products that were thought to be completely safe. As is the case of the vulnerability in iOS Mail against that warns Changpeng Zhao in our Tweet of the day:
This is a serious security issue affecting ALL iPhone users. Please take action and protect yourself. Another reason to use a unique email address for each exchange, and never share that address with anyone. Less attack surface.Please help retweet. Stay #SAFU https://t.co/fun9hax4KL— CZ Binance ??? (@cz_binance) April 23, 2020
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The vulnerability in iOS Mail
There probably will not be a part of our digital life as important and vulnerable as our email. Well, no matter if we use the platform of the company that provides the email service, or an application such as iOS Mail. Through our e-mail, he spends a good part of the most important information of our life. For this reason, it is crucial that our e-mail is protected against potential attacks by cyber criminals. Avoiding both, which is used to extract information of importance about us. Or that the same serves as a door of access to our equipment. Being, therefore, the enormous responsibility of apps like iOS Mail. Vulnerability exposed by ZecOps. Source: ZecOps in spite of which, the signature of cybersecurity ZecOps was able to detect a vulnerability in iOS Mail, which would compromise the security of all of the owners of phones iPhone. Opening the doors to third parties to intervene in the functioning of their phones. Why Changpeng Zhao would have twitteado, asking Apple users to protect their privacy against the risk posed by this vulnerability: “This is a serious security issue that affects ALL iPhone users. Please take action and protect yourself. One more reason to use a unique email address for every exchange, and never share that address with anyone. Less space to attack. Please help to retweet. Stay #SAFU“ In this way, Changpeng Zhao takes advantage of the vulnerability of iOS Mail, to remember the importance of cyber security in the transactions with cryptocurrencies. After all, if an Apple app, you can have a weakness that allows you to infect your phone. We can not be sure of virtually any platform.