iOS devices running 14.7 through 15.2 – basically all devices – are subject to a denial of service attack that forces the user to do a factory reset, wiping all of the user’s data. If the user logs in to iCloud to restore the data, the denial of service attack will replay once the data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Offers Fixes For Broken iPhone 12s While not exactly a security issue, Apple is offering to fix defective iPhone 12s that were made between October 2020 and April 2021 and which have a defective receiver module component. That is mighty kind of them since every single one of them is still under warranty and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people have moved to facial recognition to unlock their iPhone, mostly because it is easy. Researchers wanted to know how secure that is. For those people who use their face to authorize payments, the problem is, maybe, a bit more serious. Researchers at Tel Aviv University harnessed deep fakes and that magic word, AI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you were using your phone and visited a web site when a message popped up that said something like “we want to sell your data to anyone we want and you get nothing for that – do we have your permission to do that?” – what would your answer be? Well, if you are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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