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Siri Lock Screen Bypass in news your non security friends read

11
Oct
2016

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This morning I read an article on Good HouseKeeping (don’t make fun, it was a link on one of the news links that get pushed in your face on my start page.  I think it was Bing. I hate the news links but like the pictures).  It’s interesting to see what security items make it into websites for ‘normal’ people.

The scare headline read “A New iPhone Hack Lets Anyone Use Your Phone”.  It reports that Siri by default allows some actions even when the phone is locked. Pranksters can use Siri to send texts to contacts, make calls, and update Facebook.

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