Apple recently announced the ‘Lockdown’ feature, rolling out in September, to stop known malware from attacking the iPhone. While this has been designed for people who might be at higher risk of attack, it begs the question: just how secure are our everyday devices?
Apple’s new Lockdown mode, which blocks a number of different access points to the iPhone by restricting some of the functionality you might usually expect to have, aims to prevent a large number of known malware from compromising iPhones. It’s in response to a number of high-profile hacks, including the use of NSO Group’s ‘Pegasus’ surveillance software on politicians, activists and journalists’ phones.
