Australian teenager hacks Apple
2018-08-18
An Australian teenager loved Apple so much that he entered the mainframe of the technological giant, as his defense has informed Local media report that a teenager, whose identity isRead More →
Former Apple employee extracted documents about autonomous vehicles
2018-07-13
Chinese man has been accused of stealing sensitive information from the company and trying to escape to his country. Xiaolang Zhang worked on Apple‘s driverless car project, but allegedly would haveRead More →
Apple and Google face questioning from US Congress for user tracking
2018-07-12
Last May, two weeks before the promulgation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Apple began to route its data protection policies towards clearer objectives, as reportedRead More →
New Apple security feature bypassed with an adapter that the brand itself sells
2018-07-11
Just a few hours ago Apple released a couple of updates for their software, correcting bugs and repairing security holes in MacOS, watchOS, TvOS, Safari, itunes for Windows, iCloud forRead More →
Access all the information Apple has about you in a single portal
2018-05-26
For all of us who have been curious to know what data has been collected and stored by Apple about us, it is now possible to know. Apple recently launchedRead More →
Apple offers free repairs for iPhone 7 devices that refuse to connect to cellular service
2018-02-05
Apple has confirmed that a “ small percentage” of iPhone 7 devices are affected by a bug that prevents the phone from connecting to a cellular network, instead displaying “No Service” onRead More →
What I hate most about Apple slowing down iPhones with bad batteries
2017-12-22
A few days ago, an iPhone user discovered that his old iPhone felt slower because the battery was getting old. His empirical findings were later confirmed by a benchmark thatRead More →
Apple Issues Emergency Patch to Fix Password Leak in Disk Encryption Utility
2017-10-06
Apple rushed out an emergency patch Thursday that fixed an incredulous bug in its shiny new High Sierra operating system that revealed APFS volume passwords via the password hint feature. Brazilian researcherRead More →
MACS NOT RECEIVING EFI FIRMWARE SECURITY UPDATES AS EXPECTED
2017-09-30
Since the Thunderstrike bootkit attacks targeting Apple firmware were disclosed in 2015, Apple has bundled subsequent EFI updates with its regular macOS security and software updates in an attempt to improve protection around itsRead More →
iPhone, Android Exposed to Broadpwn Security Flaw, Google Patch Available
2017-07-08
The world’s two most popular mobile platforms are affected by a security vulnerability called Broadpwn and which allows attackers to gain remote code execution rights on unpatched devices. The security flaw wasRead More →
Homograph Phishing Attacks are almost impossible to detect on major browsers
2017-04-20
The Chinese security Xudong Zheng is warning of Homograph Phishing Attacks are “almost impossible to detect” also to experts. The Chinese security researcher Xudong Zheng has devised a phishing techniqueRead More →
Google and Apple Issue Security Updates for Critical Broadcom WiFi Vulnerabilities
2017-04-05
Owners of Android and iOS devices should pay special attention to security updates released by Google and Apple on Monday, as they contain fixes for a series of critical bugsRead More →
c Cops Arrest Man Potentially Linked to Apple Extortion
2017-03-30
The man is suspected of blackmail and hacking offenses. On Tuesday, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested a young man on suspicion of hacking and extortion offenses, Motherboard hasRead More →
EXPERTS DOUBT HACKERS’ CLAIM OF MILLIONS OF BREACHED APPLE CREDENTIALS
2017-03-27
Security experts say they are skeptical that a group of hackers called Turkish Crime Family actually possess a cache of hundreds of millions of Apple iCloud account credentials. A moreRead More →
iPhone Robbers Try to iPhish Victims
2017-02-25
In another strange tale from the kinetic-attack-meets-cyberattack department, earlier this week I heard from a loyal reader in Brazil whose wife was recently mugged by three robbers who nabbed her iPhone.Read More →
Researchers Bypass Apple’s Activation Lock on iPhones and iPads
2016-12-03
Two researchers have found a way to bypass the Apple Activation Lock on both iPhones and iPads, running the two most recent versions of iOS, 10.1 and 10.1.1. If you’reRead More →
Apple Patches OS X and Safari Zero-Days Related to NSO Group Spyware
2016-09-02
Apple patches two new zero-days in OS X and Safari.Apple released today two security bulletins for OS X and Safari aimed to fix three vulnerabilities related to the now infamousRead More →
Adwind RAT Affects Macs, but It’s Almost Useless
2016-07-25
Adwind author still has a lot of work ahead of him. Security researchers have observed an instance of the Adwind RAT dropping a Mac payload for the first time, but despiteRead More →
How Apple And Facebook Got KickassTorrents Founder Arrested
2016-07-22
Short Bytes: The founder of the world’s largest torrent hosting website KickassTorrents is now behind the bars. The cause of his arrest are the legal purchases he made on Apple’sRead More →
Apple Disables Old Flash Player Versions Due to Security Vulnerabilities
2016-06-21
Users are now prompted to update to the latest version. Apple is now blocking older versions of Adobe’s Flash Player because of security vulnerabilities that were patched in the most recentRead More →
