VULNERABLE: An Apple iPhone 5c. The Security Research Labs has uncovered a bug in the new iPhone's software . - Reuters
BOSTON: A German security company has uncovered a bug in the new iPhone's software that it said enables hackers to overcome a safeguard allowing users to remotely wipe stolen or lost phones.
Berlin's Security Research Labs, known as SRL, said that the vulnerability could potentially give criminals time to break into the Apple Inc phones, gain complete control of data, access email accounts and then potentially take over the user's bank accounts.
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