Apple has just released iOS 15.3, fixing several critical security issues, including a Safari problem that could leak sensitive personal info.
Apple has just released iOS 15.3, and while this latest update doesn’t add any significant new features, it addresses at least one critical security flaw. Earlier this month, software engineer Martin Bajanik of FingerprintJS found a serious vulnerability in Safari 15, the browser included in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, that could leak browsing history information and even credentials from online services that a person is using, such as Google, YouTube, Amazon, and sites using WordPress.
Unfortunately, it turns out the Safari browser in iOS 15 wasn’t exactly respecting those rules. Although it wasn’t giving out any information stored in those databases, it was happily providing a full list of all the local databases to any website that asked. To make matters worse, not only does this allow a malicious website to learn a user’s identity, but it can also be used to get a list of multiple accounts owned by the same person. This could create a serious breach of privacy in situations where someone is using an anonymous account that’s not tied to their personal identity in any way. A hacker exploiting this flaw could make a connection by discovering that the same individual had information for both accounts stored in their browser.
Security fixes in iOS 15.3 Compared with the exciting features that arrived in the last couple major iOS releases, this week’s iOS 15.3 update may appear pretty boring, but it shouldn’t be taken lightly. In fact, it’s even more important to update to iOS 15.3 as soon as possible.
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