Updated: Serious security hole in iOS 5.1? Perhaps not..

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

PS. For completeness, and to compound my earlier embarrassment, here’s the article I published initially..

Apple announced the “new iPad” to an expectant world yesterday and at the same time released a new version of its iOS 5.1 operating system for existing iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users.

If you’re about to install iOS 5.1, my advice right now would be to be very careful. As there is a serious security…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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