How iOS 9 content blockers can help you stay secure<article>
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iOS doesn’t need anti-virus software, right? I regularly receive email from security vendors, large and small, who insist that iOS will imminently be a hotbed of malware exploiting security holes—and that their software can help.</p><p>
Of course, it can’t. iOS has had plenty of severe bugs discovered and patched. Just weeks ago, it came out in a security breach at a firm that specialized in helping governments peep in on targets (whether criminal or miscellaneous) that there were, in recent iOS releases, a number of targets.</p><p>
And jailbreaking remains extant with a number of groups of varying degrees of trustworthiness distributing cracks that allow you to install anything you want, which includes anti-malware software, but also…malware. (Some jailbreaking advocates advocate using a reliable hack in order to plug holes used for jailbreaking, but there’s no way for normal users to determine which jailbreak hacks to trust.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2984953/security/how-ios-9-content-blockers-can-help-you-stay-secure.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How iOS 9 content blockers can help you stay secure
