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A new vulnerability discovered by a Cisco researcher could allow hackers to gain access to the internal storage and stored passwords on your iOS or Mac device – and all they’d have to do is send you a malicious image file. Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos found that a TIFF format file – sent via MMS, email or placed on a webpage that a victim is guided to visit – can hide malware which can run automatically, without being detected. In addition to beaming across your authentication credentials on iOS, Mac OS X, tvOS and watchOS, the vulnerability can also…

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