Venmo which is a money transfer app that can be used by iOS devices recently ran into troubled waters when vulnerability was detected. Those people or users who managed access an iPhone that was locked had around 2 minutes or so where in the account could be emptied. This resulted in a lot of problems as the limit for the week was $2999.99.
Martin Vigo, a security engineer with Sales Force was the First one to detect the flaw as per what has been reported by TNW. As soon as he got to low about this flaw, the company was notified and also waited to demonstrate the method after the loophole was closed.
He went on to say that he remembered that an SMS could be sent to Siri even when there was a locked device. This is a feature that should be noted as it is a popular feature and is said to be a default one. In the iOS 9, the feature of Hey Siri was added and soon became very popular.
Due to the fact that an SMS can be sent even if the device is locked, in order for payments to be made or even reply to the every SMS that comes in, the Text Message preview was introduced by Apple.
As per this feature even if the device is locked, the person can still go ahead and see who the message was sent to or from who you received a message along with some of the content as a preview. This feature is said to be a default one.
He went on to say that just by combining the tow , he can use Siri to send out a reply apart from seeing the code and the SMS and can also make payments. All this can be done without even opening the device.
