'We concluded that disabling the app was the right course of action as this bug could allow someone to listen through another customer's iPhone without consent,' Apple said.
An Apple Watch app used to send voice messages between devices has been disabled due to a vulnerability which could be abused to snoop on iPhones.
The firm said:"Although we are not aware of any use of the vulnerability against a customer and specific conditions and sequences of events are required to exploit it, we take the security and privacy of our customers extremely seriously. We concluded that disabling the app was the right course of action as this bug could allow someone to listen through another customer's iPhone without consent. We apologize again for this issue and the inconvenience.
Zoom was criticized by cybersecurity experts for its response to the bug report, which it deemed as low risk. The Verge reported this week that Apple is now taking action to remove the software at the center of the problem—a web server that was deployed onto MacBook computers, intended to circumvent a security feature and save end-users having to go through an extra click.saying in a statement
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