Saturday, March 12, 2022

How Apple's FaceTime Glitch Allowed Eavesdropping

It's the bug taking a bite out of Apple. A flaw in the FaceTime app allowed eavesdropping. Here's how the glitch worked:

Users swiped up while calling someone then tapped add person. By adding their own number, it created a group FaceTime call and then...

"Just like magic that other phone number picked up automatically and you're able at that point to hear everything that's acquirable from an audio perspective from that phone without the other person picking up,” said Jonathan S. Weissman, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing Security at RIT.

Weissman says the glitch went even further... more