Apple acknowledges flaw exposes user data

Apple acknowledged the US vulnerability in OS "iOS" for mobile devices in an official statement published Friday on its Web site for technical support.

According to Apple, the vulnerability allows hackers to intercept the data exchanged by the user with websites and online services and its decryption and information users.

The Matthew Greene, an expert in data encryption in Johns Hopkins University that any hacker can access to the telecom network to intercept data users of mobile Apple devices and modified "worse than imaginable."

Apple did not disclose the date of disclosure of this loophole that allows bypassing encryption system in the exchange of user data, nor was the pirates actually backwards.

To fix the gap, Apple has released iOS update 7.0.6 for your mobile devices and said that the aim is to fix the flaw in SSL Connection "which in encrypted communication layer between the phone and the electronic services.

This update is for iPhone from the fourth generation, iPod touch from the fifth generation, the iPad 2 and fired afterwards.