Director General Infowatch Natalya Kaspersky believes that smartphones and tablets Apple unsafe because in their regular surveillance of the functional part of the user, including the conduct of covert photos and videos.
Kaspersky names among relevant to the use of Russian officials cyberthreats iPhone and iPad, as These devices are not safe and can be transparent to their owners to take pictures, shoot video and send these files without.
In mobile devices, Apple, but also in smartphones and tablets on competing platforms, embedded software collects and analyzes information about the user, his movements, with possible video and photo cameras and reading images, and sends the collected information of the producer - said Kaspersky, citing her well-known study.
In fact it is a Trojan, because having never declared, no icons or any other indication of its presence in the mobile device, - she added.
Kaspersky believes that the presence of such functionality is interested not only the producer: I want to draw attention to the following: against Apple was filed about 20 lawsuits from the U.S. and a class action lawsuit from 27,000 South Koreans accused of tracking users. At the same about any court decisions we have not heard, all the cases were jammed. So it#39;s beneficial to someone.
By the way, the connection with the special services of the U.S., Apple is literally in September 2012 spoke to oppose itself to the IS industry hacker movement Anti Security. The band members have stated that after the break-in March 2012 Laptop Dell Vostro, belonging to an FBI agent Stenglu Christopher (Christopher K. Stangl), in the Desktop directory on it was discovered NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv file with more than 12 million unique identifiers of devices Apple (UDID ), their names, user names, their phone numbers, addresses, etc. The FBI has officially denied this information.
