Detecting 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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Apple to Add Manual Authentication to iMessage
November 22 2023Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. iMessage is getting it:
The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its...
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Crashing iPhones with a Flipper Zero
November 6 2023The Flipper Zero is an incredibly versatile hacking device. Now it can be used to crash iPhones in its vicinity by sending them a never-ending stream of pop-ups.
These...
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Spyware in India
November 2 2023Apple has warned leaders of the opposition government in India that their phones are being spied on:
Multiple top leaders of India’s opposition parties and several journalists have received...
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Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones
September 13 2023Make sure you update your iPhones:
Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click exploit chain...
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Adobe, Apple, Google & Microsoft Patch 0-Day Bugs
September 13 2023Microsoft today issued software updates to fix at least five dozen security holes in Windows and supported software, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited....
Read moreWhen Apps Go Rogue
August 30 2023Interesting story of an Apple Macintosh app that went rogue. Basically, it was a good app until one particular update…when it went bad.
With more official macOS features added...
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