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Apple’s FaceTime privacy bug allowed possible spying

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:00:09 +0000

A new bug in Apple’s FaceTime app that allowed for possible spying has the Internet in an uproar. Do Apple users need to disable FaceTime immediately? Mac expert Thomas Reed swoops in as the voice of reason.

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A week in security (December 31, 2018 – January 6, 2019)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:33:05 +0000

A roundup of last week’s security news from December 31, 2018 to January 6, 2019, including fresh breaches in the New Year, mobile malware, GandCrab, and how we remembered 2018.

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El portal de privacidad de Apple permitirá conocer todo lo que sabe sobre ti

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:47:28 +0000

Un mes después del reciente lanzamiento de los nuevos modelos de iPhone y Mac, Apple ha renovado sus páginas de privacidad. No han cambiado muchas cosas: todavía mantienen su compromiso con la privacidad como un derecho humano fundamental y mencionan que la información, en su mayor parte, se guarda en los iPhones, iPads y Macs. [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/jE-WpV-Kywk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple appears to have blocked GrayKey iPhone hacking tool

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:09:00 -0700

Apple has apparently been able to permanently block de-encryption technology from a mysterious Atlanta-based company whose blackbox device was embraced by government agencies to bypass iPhone passcodes.

Atlanta-based Grayshift is one of two companies that claimed it could thwart Apple iPhone passcode security through brute-force attacks.

The blackbox technology purportedly worked, as Grayshift’s technology was snapped up by regional law enforcement and won contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Secret Service.

Another vendor, Israel-based Cellebrite, also discovered a way to unlock encrypted iPhones running iOS 11 and marketed its product to law enforcement and private forensics firms around the world. According to a police warrant obtained by Forbes, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security tested the technology.

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Stats make iOS a hard OS to ignore

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700

The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system — iOS 12 — was released just a few weeks ago, and yet it’s already installed on 53% of relatively newer iPhones (introduced since September 2014) and 50% of all iPhones. Bottom line: It’s the fastest acceptance of any Apple OS.

This is more than a minimally interesting statistic. It illustrates the key difference between Apple mobile devices and Android mobile devices: Although there are more Android users on the globe, Apple’s users are much more of a community. That means many things from an Apple marketing perspective, but for IT, it means far greater security.

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