An interesting vulnerability was just announced that affects both Apple and Google/Android phones. That is something that is very unusual. The bug is tied to a part of all cell phones called the baseband processor. It is the part of the phone that controls the radios inside your phone. In this case, the chip is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those Google G-Suite (AKA Google Apps and Google Apps for Work) users, Google has released a new option for managing iPhones and iPads. What is great about it is that it does NOT require installing an agent on the phone or pad. Google calls it the Basic Mobile Management option for iOS and it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has decided to lead the way on web, as it often has. In this case, Google has announced that as of January 1, 2017, web pages that transmit credit cards or ask for passwords over HTTP (vs. HTTPS) will be marked with this flag in the address bar: Some of will say that this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It appears that Google is getting serious about Android security. They have, for the past several months, been releasing patch updates every month – like other software companies. While I have no visibility to AT&T and Verizon, Sprint has been religious at pushing those updates out to my phone. This month they released patches covering […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This afternoon, Google Apps went down for a few hours. Judging by the activity on the Twitterverse, you would have thought the world had ended. You can check the outage yourself by going to Google’s AppsStatus page on the web (google.com/appsstatus). It appears that Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and other parts of the Google Apps […]
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