Security experts warn that users of Apple iPhone, iPad or Macbook may leak personal information due to vulnerabilities in the AirDrop feature.
Privacy warning is issued by experts at Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) regarding Apple’s AirDrop data transmission feature.
AirDrop is very useful for Apple ecosystem users but is being warned of being insecure. Experts said, AirDrop allows users to share files with Apple devices in contacts. During the process of verifying the connection between devices, AirDrop uses a “mutual authentication mechanism” to compare the user’s phone number and email with the entries in the other device’s phonebook. Basically, data exchanged via AirDrop is encrypted by Apple, but this security mechanism is assessed by experts as relatively weak. In fact, Apple just scrambles the phone numbers and email addresses exchanged in the process of transmitting through AirDrop. This security mechanism can be easily circumvented using simple techniques like brute-force attacks. Also according to security experts at Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), the above vulnerability was discovered in May 2019 and has been notified to Apple, but Apple still has no specific patch. to fix the problem. Airdrop is a feature that comes pre-installed on iPhone, iPad or Mac (depending on the version of the operating system). Helps iOS, Mac devices connect together and can easily share files wirelessly with each other very quickly without affecting the quality of the file. Airdrop has been integrated on iPhone, iPod, iPad devices using iOS 7 or higher. Macbook from 2012 with OS X Yosemite (10.0) higher (except Mac Pro mid-2012). In addition, AirDrop cannot be used with other operating systems (Android phones, Windows Phone phones …).
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