Unpatched and end-of-life devices that are no longer supported by the manufacturer are much more prevalent than expected and create significant risk for corporate networks.
Duo Labs research draws on data gathered from thousands of customer deployments in more than 150 countries worldwide.
About half of Apple iPhone users are currently running outdated software (version iOS 8.3, released in April 2015, or earlier), leaving them exposed to several hundred documented vulnerabilities, including the Ins0mnia vulnerability which attackers can use to surreptitiously steal data from phones using hidden applications.
Five days after the release of iOS 8.4.1, which addressed over 70 documented critical vulnerabilities (including Quicksand and Ins0mnia), only nine percent of the phones had been updated to the latest release of iOS software.
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