<p>Researchers have discovered a new security flaw in iOS 7 that could allow a malicious app to monitor and track a user's touch and button inputs while quietly running in the background. The flaw, according to research firm FireEye, buries itself in the multitasking functionality of iOS and automatically transmits all user inputs to a remote server.</p><p>To demonstrate the new security exploit, FireEye's researchers created a proof-of-concept monitoring app and installed it on a device running iOS 7, effectively bypassing Apple's App Store review process. Once installed, the app was able to track all kinds of user inputs, from the keyboard to the volume and power buttons to Touch ID verification eventseven screen touches were tracked with precise coordinates.</p><p>News of the security bug arrives less than a week after Apple was forced to respond to another major vulnerability involving the way iPhones, iPads and Macs securely connect to websites via Wi-Fi or cellular. The flaw would have allowed malicious hackers to capture and modify supposedly safe data from Apple's Safari browser. The issue has been fixed for iPhones and iPads running iOS 6 or 7, but Apple is still planning to release a fix for Mac computers running OS X "very soon."</p><p>Apple issued an urgent fix for last week's security flawiOS 7.0.6but this week's exploit affects all current non-jailbroken versions of iOS, including iOS 7 and iOS 6.1.x.</p><p><a href="http://readwrite.com/2014/02/25/apple-ios-7-bug-update-secretly-tracks-activities">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/new-keylogging-security-flaw-found-in-ios-7/">New keylogging security flaw found in iOS 7</a> (GigaOM)</p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57619531-94/fcc-expands-mobile-broadband-speed-test-to-include-ios-users/">FCC expands mobile-broadband speed test to include iOS users</a> (CNET (blog))</p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/10660203/Second-Apple-iOS-security-flaw-exposed.html">Second Apple iOS security flaw exposed</a> (Telegraph.co.uk)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dSVO4js-Lmb6naMLueVNDyEGNafAM&authuser=0&ned=us">152 additional articles.</a></p>