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Title: Apple to fix macOS email encryption bug in future software update Post by: HCK on November 11, 2019, 04:05:21 pm Apple to fix macOS email encryption bug in future software update
You probably haven't been affected by it... What you need to know Apple says it is aware of an email encryption bug in macOS Catalina. It plans to fix the problem in a future update. The problem meant that in certain cases, emails were being stored locally as unencrypted files. Apple has said it is aware of an email encryption bug in macOS Catalina, and that it plans to fix the problem in a future update. As reported by The Verge, a vulnerability was discovered by Apple IT-specialist Bob Gendler in Apple's Mail application for macOS. Whilst exploring how macOS and Siri curates information to suggest to users, he discovered that Mail and other apps store information which Siri uses to tailor its suggestions. One file, snippets.db, was apparently storing unencrypted text of emails that should have been encrypted. Even after removing the private key so as to prevent him reading encrypted emails, he found that the text of the email could still be viewed in snippets.db. The problem rep... Source: Apple to fix macOS email encryption bug in future software update (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/KWPhbNhtokg/apple-fix-macos-email-encryption-bug-future-software-update) |