Security & Privacy

Apple has issue a security update for its iPhone OS, for both the iPhone and iPod touch, fixing five serious bugs in the way audio files and images are handled, in recovery mode, and in WebKit (the framework used for displaying HTML content). Several of these bugs could lead to arbitrary code execution, and the recovery mode bug could allow people with physical access to a locked iPhone to access its data.

Updates for the iPhone and iPod touch are available only through iTunes. More information about this update is available here.