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Apple isn’t happy about the way Google revealed a major iPhone security flaw recently. Google security researchers revealed that malicious websites used previously undisclosed security flaws in iOS to hack into devices over at least two years. While Apple doesn’t dispute the research, the company accuses Google of “stoking fear among all iPhone users that their devices had been compromised,” because key details were omitted in Google’s blog post.
“The sophisticated attack was narrowly focused, not a broad-based exploit of iPhones ‘en masse’ as described,” explains Apple. “The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community.” Subsequent reports have revealed that these websites also t…