Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:29:04 +0000
Data collected by advertising firms can be used — often illegally — by various government agencies. How does this happen, and what to do to minimize surveillance?
Read moreOur Trusted Advisor dashboard provides an easy-to-understand assessment of your device’s security.
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Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:11:20 +0000
An overview of private and encrypted note-taking apps, to-do lists, and diaries on all platforms.
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Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:41:29 +0000
Learn about upcoming iOS changes in 2024 and how to use the new alternative browsers and app stores on Apple devices.
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Apple is telling European customers that new EU competition laws will make iPhones less safe once the company is forced to open up its platforms to third-party App Stores. The company, not exactly happy about this, has published a 32-page white paper where it spells out the risks arising from the EU’s big experiment.
The EU’s formal adoption of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) means Apple must make several changes to its App Store and business models. Changes include the introduction of support for third-party app stores, opening up to payment systems other than Apple Pay, and more.
Your enterprise security does not live in isolation — the threat environment extends across all your colleagues, partners, and friends.
That’s why it’s very concerning that so many businesses continue to fail to meet basic security hygiene standards, according to the latest Security 360 report from Jamf.
Data is gold, which attackers recognize — even many in business don’t. Every stolen address, email, phone number, name, or even passport number is an ID attack waiting to happen, a path to enable a more complex phishing scam, or just an opportunity to call someone up and claim the target has a problem with their computer that they can help them with.
A group of cybercriminals is committing bank fraud by convincing victims to scan their IDs and faces.
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In the name of security, the UK government may well have put a cybersecurity target on the nation’s back, with Apple once again warning that proposed changes to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 are a “serious and direct threat to data security and information privacy.
“We are deeply concerned about the amendments to the Investigatory Powers Bill currently before Parliament, which will put the privacy and security of users at risk,” Apple said in a statement. “This is an unprecedented overreach by the government and, if implemented, the UK new user protections could be secretly vetoed globally, preventing us from ever delivering them to customers.”