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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:18:52 +0000
A security clanger has been spotted in the current beta version of iOS 13 which allows anyone to access a user’s stored web and app passwords without having to authenticate.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/aZwDCfTPAro” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:54:00 -0700
Like liberty for all, privacy demands vigilance, and that’s why Apple users who care about either are moving to DuckDuckGo for search.
Privacy is under attack.
It doesn’t take much effort to prove this truth. At time of writing, recent news is full of creeping privacy erosion:
And then there’s Duck Duck Go.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0700
If you travel frequently and use an iPhone or iPad then you simply must familiarize yourself with these two tips – they’ll make it much easier to secure your device and its contents when you are on the move.
I’ve become very used to using Face ID. It’s seamless.
On the iPhone, I like that I can pay for groceries with a look and find it much easier to use in the dark than the Home button.
My iPad experience is similar, but I do get annoyed sometimes that I must raise the tablet slightly to get the face angle right – this isn’t always as intuitive as I would like.
All the same, given Apple’s claim that there is a 1 in 50,000 chance that someone else’s fingerprint will unlock your iPhone and a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that it will be unlocked by another person’s face, I’ll always opt for the highly secure choice.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 07:06:00 -0700
Apple quite evidently plans many interesting improvements in its iCloud service this year. So, what’s going on?
Apple at WWDC made several announcements that will be reliant on iCloud – these include obvious things like new services and support for new functions, and less evident topics around sync, data and AI.
Most recently, the company began beta-testing Touch ID and Face ID access to iCloud.com online, meaning that if you happen to be using an Apple device (Mac, iPad, iPhone) you can access your online iCloud services with the touch of a finger or a quick eye scan.
This may also be Apple’s way of testing the privacy-protecting Sign-in with Apple service it intends launching later this year.
Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 06:58:43 +0000
Die Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) wartete mit einigen Überraschungen auf. Eine davon war ein neues Feature, das die Anmeldung für Apps und Websites privater gestalten soll: “Sign In with Apple”. Der neue Anmelde-Service soll unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen anderer Lösungen unterbinden. Bisher meldet man sich für Dutzende von Konten auf Websites mit einer Mail-Adresse und […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Touja9JOGXo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 05:47:00 -0700
Ready for the mobile security news that IT doesn’t want to hear about but needs to? When security firm Positive Technologies started pen-testing various mobile apps, security holes were rampant.
We’ll plunge into the details momentarily, but here’s the upshot: “High-risk vulnerabilities were found in 38 percent of mobile applications for iOS and in 43 percent of Android applications” and “most cases are caused by weaknesses in security mechanisms — 74 percent and 57 percent for iOS and Android apps, respectively, and 42 percent for server-side components — because such vulnerabilities creep in during the design stage, fixing them requires significant changes to code.”
Credit to Author: Sergey Golubev| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:41:02 +0000
Apple to roll out a system of its own for quick login to websites and apps. Learn what makes it different from similar offers.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:13:00 -0700
Apple is changing how its Find My Mac tool works in macOS Catalina and iOS – it will now use Bluetooth and should find your Mac even when it is asleep.
Apple is combining two apps – Find My Friends and Find My iPhone into a new ‘Find My’ app.
The combined app offers what we are used to from each one of these individual apps, but introduces new tools based on Bluetooth.
The ideas is that it will use low energy Bluetooth signals to help bring people together with lost things.