A few months ago Apple and the FBI seemed to be locked in a fight to the death over a request to unlock a phone belonging to the now dead San Bernadino shooter. The FBi attempted to use the 18th century All Writs Act to get Apple to write new software that undermined the security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple was granted a patent last month that allowed someone to shut down photo and video recording on all nearby iPhones – say if you were photographing the police or a concert. The patent uses an infrared signal that would be received by appropriately equipped iPhones to disable the camera. Think about who might like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple is dealing today with something that Microsoft or Google is used to dealing with. Hackers attacked a weak link in Apple’s universe – the developer community. Apparently, the performance of Apple’s web site is poor in China, so developers often download software from alternative web sites. These hackers convinced enough developers to download a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Ars Technica, researchers have found several sneaky ways to steal passwords and other sensitive app information on both the iOS and OS X Apple platforms. None of them seem to directly attack the secure element – not that this will make users feel better – and Apple is working with the researchers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In addition to the traditional ransomware that everyone knows about, the AdultFriendFinder breach I wrote about earlier has the hackers blackmailing users of the site. Now, mSpy clients are being extorted too. Brian Krebs is reporting that hackers are using the mSpy breach to extort iPhone users. Apparently, users who have mSpy installed are asked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who read the security news, you know that this last 12 months has brought an amazing number of SSL bugs to the surface (see a few of my blog posts here and here and here). Now iPhone and iPad users have their turn to deal with an SSL bug. The bug, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]