Security breach and iOS 6

It does affect devices running iOS 6. The fix is to upgrade to the most recent, compatible version, in the case of your iPhone 4S this will be 7.0.6.

Your iPhone is vulnerable to the SSL security bug unless you update to iOS 7.0.6.

You cannot upgrade to iOS 6.1.6 on an iPhone 4s as Apple's iOS Software Update system only allows you to update to the latest version available based on your detected hardware. For your device, the only update that will be available to you is iOS 7.0.6, which does include a security patch for the SSL bug.

The security breach only affects devices running iOS 7.0.5 and is fixed with iOS 7.0.6 Edit: I stand corrected.

jesseandana wrote:

The security breach only affects devices running iOS 7.0.5 and is fixed with iOS 7.0.6

No, it also affects devices running iOS 6. For those that can run iOS 6, but CANNOT run iOS 7 (the iPhone 3GS and the iPod Touch 4), there is a patch in the security update iOS 6.1.6. However, the iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5c and 5S and the iPod Touch 5 can only download and install iOS 7.0.6, so those with iOS 7 compatible devices who have stayed with iOS 6 have to either move up to iOS 7 now, or live with the vulnerability.

The issue arises from a dumb programming mistake made in iOS 7. So if you are not running that iOS version, you may be safe from its consequences (although you may be vulnerable to OTHER nasties).

You can check if your device is vulnerable to THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE by opening Safari and visiting the following URL (must type it in completely as shown):

https://gotofail.com

No, this particular issue affects iOS 6 also. Apple released the 6.1.6 update to address the same issues as 7.0.6.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5936505

This solved my question-I had no idea there was an update, since I recently upgraded to Mavericks, and I don't have the "automatically install new updates" enabled. I went to the gotofail link and it explained things well.

Appreciate it!