Security researchers have found a way to crack Apple’s keychain making it possible to steal passwords from any installed app including the native the Mail app without being detected, reports The Register.Indiana University’s Luyi Xing, Xiaolong Bai, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kai Chen, joined Tongxin Li of Peking University and Xiaojing Liao of Georgia Institute of Technology to publish the paper Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS.”Recently we discovered a set of surprising security vulnerabilities in Apple’s Mac OS and iOS that allows a malicious app to gain unauthorised access to other apps’ sensitive data such as passwords and tokens for iCloud, Mail app and all web passwords stored by Google Chrome,” Xing told The Register. “Our malicious apps successfully went through Apple’s vetting process and was published on Apple’s Mac app store and iOS app store.”Share Article:Facebook,   Twitter,   LinkedIn,   Google Plus,   Email,   Reddit,   Digg,   Delicious,   StumbleUponFollow iClarified:Facebook,   Twitter,   LinkedIn,   Google Plus,   Newsletter,   App Store,   YouTubeAdvertise Here

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