Since the beginning of Apple-time (or is it i-time?), Apple has always bundled security fixes into iOS upgrades. This means that a user could not install a security update without also upgrading the OS. In general, Apple has always forced users to upgrade their iPhones and other mobile devices. This tends to make Apple products […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since Apple doesn’t make a lot of money by selling your data to others (or selling targeted ads to others based on data that it captures), it loves poking Google in the eye about its data collection practices. Apple required “privacy nutrition labels” by vendors, including themselves, for all new releases of software distributed in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Gives Up On Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) ASLR is a security technique that has been used for years to make it harder for hackers to FIND code in memory to compromise it. There is a problem in the rendering engine in the Chromium project that breaks ASLR and Google says that they won’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple is preparing to add a new prompt to iOS that requires users to opt-in to tracking by app developers like Facebook. It used to be that you could opt-out — if you could find the place to do that. Facebook is going to have its own screen telling you how wonderful it is to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers Have Access to iOS 14 Months Before You Will Apple gives developers early prototypes of their new software so that Apple doesn’t have a disaster on its hands when the new software is released and user’s applications no longer work. Unfortunately, some developers sell those phones – or at least access to them – […]
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