AirPods and Beats Firmware Updates Deal with Essential Safety Problem

Whereas Apple’s launch notes for AirPods firmware usually provide few particulars on included adjustments, the corporate has revealed a separate assist doc outlining a safety problem that was fastened in at the moment’s firmware updates for AirPods, AirPods Professional, AirPods Max, Powerbeats Professional, and Beats Match Professional.

Based on the doc, at the moment’s firmware updates handle a safety problem that would have allowed an attacker inside Bluetooth vary to spoof the small print of a tool you’ve got beforehand linked your headphones to, permitting the attacker to achieve entry to your headphones.

Apple normally mentions in its assist paperwork if a safety problem is understood to have been exploited within the wild, however the firm has not indicated that that is the case with this problem. Nonetheless, it is a good suggestion to replace the firmware in your headphones as quickly as doable as others may very well be impressed to try to duplicate an exploit of the problem now that its existence has been publicized.

There isn’t any easy mechanism for initiating a firmware replace for AirPods and Beats headphones, with Apple merely stating that the updates are “routinely delivered whereas your headphones are paired with and in Bluetooth vary of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.”