A LOCK SCREEN VULNERABILITY IN THE NEW IOS 7 LEAVES USERS' E-MAIL, PHOTOS, TWITTER, AND OTHER APPS OPEN TO BEING USED WITHOUT PERMISSION

Hey guys, did you know that the passcode lock screen on iOS 7 suffers from a virus that allows anyone with direct access to the iPhone or iPad to bypass the lock screen and open apps?

It was discovered by Jose Rodriguez that if you hold the phone's sleep button, but instead of swiping to power down the phone, tap cancel and double-tap the home button to access the multitasking screen. From there, you can jump to the camera and share stored photos, which gives you access to the user's communication accounts such as e-mail, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and others.

And it has been tested successfully on iOS 7 when running on the iPhone 4S, 5, 5C, and 5S, and the most recent iPad model.

Rodriguez has an ability of finding iOS lock screen hacks. He found vulnerabilities in the iOS  6.2.3 lock screen and a lock screen in a beta version of iSO 7.

 Apple fixed both, but this is a new one that he found recently. Rodriguez released the hacks in a responsible manner, and he promised to figure out ways to break the new version of iOS.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57603787-83/apple-promises-to-fix-ios-7-lock-screen-hack/