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New Apple iOS bug lets hackers steal passwords with one text


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If you don’t already have iOS 9.3.3, you better download and install it — quick.

Cisco Talos, a security and research group, recently discovered a bug in Mac and iPhones that allows hackers to steal passwords with a single text message. The researchers at Cisco Talos alerted Apple, and the tech company immediately worked on a patch, which was released this week.

“This is very high severity issue,” Craig Wiliams, head of global outreach at Cisco Talos, told Fortune. “The fact that you have an exploit without any user interaction makes me very concerned.”

Although the iOS update is out, it doesn’t automatically install itself — people who own iPhones have to download and install the update themselves.

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