‘I still can’t understand how he did that’: US teen finds second Apple security bug

Umarov said he was looking for vulnerabilities in Apple’s system when he found his first bug at age 14. — Bloomberg

HOLMDEL: If you opened a malicious website link in iTunes U, a remote learning app, before its last security update, the link could take over the app and access the user’s private information.

It could see the user’s phone number or email address. It could answer assignment questions and, in Holmdel High School junior Giyas Umarov’s own explanation, “basically act like the user whenever (it) wants”.