Apple Takes Drastic Measures to Stop a Nasty FaceTime Bug

Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 7:23 a.m.

It\u2019s often hard to tell just how seriously to take reports of a new vulnerability. The jargon is inscrutable, and the skills needed to pull off the attacks are possessed only by highly skilled professionals. But a bug afflicting Apple\u2019s FaceTime chat has no such ambiguity. How bad is it? Rather than risk exposing people to it, Apple pulled the plug on FaceTime group chats altogether.