UK Demanded Apple Add a Backdoor to iCloud
February 26 2025Last month, the UK government demanded that Apple weaken the security of iCloud for users worldwide. On Friday, Apple took steps to comply for users in the United...
Read moreUK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption
February 8 2025The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to...
Read morePrivacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search
January 6 2025Initial speculation about a new Apple feature.
Read moreDetails about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
December 2 2024I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time. Here are the technical details, discovered...
Read moreEverybody is reporting about a new security iPhone security feature with iOS 18: if the phone hasn’t been used for a few days, it automatically goes into its “Before...
Read moreApple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks
July 11 2024Not a lot of details: Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It’s the second...
Read moreDetecting Malicious Trackers
May 21 2024From Slashdot:
Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday,...
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Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips
March 28 2024It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack:
The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is...
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Apple Announces Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms for iMessage
February 26 2024Apple announced PQ3, its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022.
There’s a lot...
Read moreNew iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices
December 27 2023Apple is rolling out a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that seems well thought out:
When Stolen Device Protection is turned on, Face ID or Touch ID authentication is...
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