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Oct 17, 2012 Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
Apple has released an urgent update to its desktop operating systems and the Safari web browser to block a hack that could have turned the machines into spying tools. The security flaw affects the El Capitan and Yosemite Mac operating systems, and is the same that could have let hackers, which Apple fixed with the iOS 9.3.5 update last week. The Silicon Valley giant the update to the Mac software and Safari a week after its iPhone patch without addressing the delay. Apple has urged customers with devices that are not running iOS 9.3.5, OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan and 10.10.5 Yosemite to update their software immediately to protect against potentially malicious hackers from spying on them. Described as, the hack exploits three software vulnerabilities, present across the devices because Apple reuses a lot of the same code, that could let a hacker take control over the compromised device with the tap of a finger. Mobile security company and internet watchdog group Citizen Lab discovered the hack after a failed attempt to break into human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor's iPhone using it.
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When Mansoor received a suspicious text that said 'New secrets about torture of Emiratis in state prisons' alongside a link, he, who clicked on the link and analysed the hack as it unfolded.