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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:41:00 -0700

Apple has at last introduced a new tool that lets you request and download everything the company knows about you, including all the data it gathers and retains when using the company’s retail outlets, iCloud, apps, products and services.

Why is this available?

In part, Apple has made this information available to bring it into line with Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) legislation, laws designed to better protect individual privacy in an online age.

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Security TrendMicro

April 26, 2018 admin

The New Mobile Threat Landscape, circa 2017 to 2018

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:00:10 +0000

Is your phone infected?

Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seemed to keep pace with their desktop counterparts in terms of malicious routines….

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 18, 2018 admin

How to use a strong passcode to better secure your iPhone

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:32:00 -0700

With police departments and federal agencies lining up to buy technology from two companies whose products can bypass iPhone security mechanisms, experts said users concerned about privacy should use a strong passcode to help prevent unwanted access to data.

That’s also true for enterprise users with iPhones that access potentially sensitive coporate data.

Simply put, complex passcodes are always better for security, according to Phil Hochmuth, IDC’s program director for enterprise mobility. Common best practices for creating a hard-to-crack passcode includes using both upper- and lower-case characters, numbers and uncommon words.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 16, 2018 admin

12+ things you can do with a locked iPhone

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:06:00 -0700

With so much focus on staying productive, it may surprise you to realise just how many things you can do with a locked iPhone. What can you do and how can you switch these features off?

Wake it up

The Raise to Wake feature available since iPhone 6S/SE means your iPhone can tell when you pick it up and will wake the display up automatically, so you need not do so. Left on by default, you can disable this feature in Settings>Display & Brightness where you toggle Raise to Wake to off.

Make a call, send a message and more

You can call people from a locked iPhone. Just ask Siri to call a person in your contact book. You can also send Messages using the locked device, just ask Siri to send a Message and name someone in the device’s Contacts book. To stop this, set Allow Siri When Lockedto off in Settings>Siri & Search.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 13, 2018 admin

Everything you need to know about Apple's GDPR privacy upgrade

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:07:00 -0700

Apple is updating its products and services to bring them in line with the EU’s forthcoming privacy protection rules (GDPR). Among other improvements, customers will be able to download all the information Apple keeps about them.

What is GDPR?

Europe is about to introduce General Data Protection Regulations, (GDPR). These rules are designed to bring existing data protection laws into the 21^stCentury, they allow individuals the right to see what information companies hold about them, oblige business to handle data more responsibly, and put a new set of fines and regulations in place. Almost any entity that handles personal data will be impacted by the rules, which you can read here. These changes may be taking place in Europe, but there is expectation most big tech firms will apply similar protections outside Europe, which will give more effective protection to most people – which is a good thing.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 30, 2018 admin

Facial recognition tech moves from smartphones to the boardroom

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:03:00 -0700

Facial recognition technology, which has begun to gain traction on mobile devices like the iPhone X and various Android smartphones, could soon show up at work – and at the airport.

The technology uses a person’s face to authenticate their identity, making it a potentially important security tool.

In 2015, Google launched its “Trusted Face” feature as part of its Android 5.0 Lollipop update. Trusted Face, part of Android’s Smart Lock technology, works in the same way as Apple’s Face ID, which replaced the Touch ID fingerprint reader on the iPhone X.

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MalwareBytes Security

March 15, 2018 admin

GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000

GrayKey, an iPhone unlocker, is secretly being marketed to law enforcement. Thanks to an anonymous source, we now know how the device works—and the danger it presents to security.

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Why is this available?

Wake it up

Make a call, send a message and more

What is GDPR?

Understand history, but don’t repeat it