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 moreApple has sent alerts to people in 92 nations to say it’s detected that they may have been a victim of a mercenary attack.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:37:54 +0000
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that prevent the devices from being used until the recipient responds “Allow” or “Don’t Allow” to each prompt. Assuming the user manages not to fat-finger the wrong button on the umpteenth password reset request, the scammers will then call the victim while spoofing Apple support in the caller ID, saying the user’s account is under attack and that Apple support needs to “verify” a one-time code.
Read moreApple has released a security update for iOS and iPadOS to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities which are reported to already have been exploited.
Read moreLast year, 11% of all detections on Macs were caused by malware. The illuminating figure gives a view into the world of Mac cyberthreats.
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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.
Apple is preparing for future threats to iMessage by introducing upgraded encryption for its messaging service by using quantum computers.
Think of it as state-of-the-art quantum security for messaging at scale, the company says, resulting in Apple’s messaging system being more secure against both current and future foes.
Announced on Apple’s Security Research blog, the new iMessage protection is called PQ3 and promises the “strongest security properties of any at-scale messaging protocol in the world.”
Credit to Author: Alexey Sadylko| Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:42:09 +0000
Apple protects iMessage chats via its new post-quantum encryption protocol.
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