---
id: 2267
title: "The iOS FaceTime vulnerability: What it means and what you can do to protect yourself"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/the-ios-facetime-vulnerability-what-it-means-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/"
published_at: "2019-01-29T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["privacy", "ios", "vulnerability", "apple", "bugcrowd", "facetime", "eavesdropping"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2267"
lang: en
---

# The iOS FaceTime vulnerability: What it means and what you can do to protect yourself

## Summary

A FaceTime bug found by a teenager let callers hear audio before the recipient answered. Apple shut down the affected back-end services; Bugcrowd urges disabling FaceTime until the patch arrives.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2019-01-29T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/the-ios-facetime-vulnerability-what-it-means-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2267