In the beginning, Apple products stood high, wide, and handsome in the face of cyberattacks. Average hackers found it nearly impossible to crack the company’s proprietary software, and an Apple product’s attack surface was almost nonexistent. But over …
The iPhone jailbreaking community is currently at work on a new jailbreak tool called Checkra1n, and a current scam pretending to offer the software baits users to a click-fraud site instead. PC Mag reported that Checkra1n is still in development and w…
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Sea Turtle hijacks the internet
A hacker group that experts believe might be backed by a nation-state has been targeting big fish in the internet infrastructure world. Sea Turtle, as the group is nicknamed, launched cyberattacks against 40 government …
Statisticians estimate the number of cell phones in the world to be about 5 billion, with smartphones constituting about half of them. That’s 2.5 billion smartphones in use, which means a good third of the world’s population is texting, FaceTiming, sen…
Data breaches, stolen passwords, spyware — consumers are all too familiar with the dangers of today’s digital world, and they’re worried. According to a study done by Wipro, if you take all the data theft of 2017, over 2.7B records were stolen from Jan…
Our society, our countries, our planet run on mobile networks like never before. Consumers do more than enjoy telecom convenience — they depend on it. As a result, competition to become the consumer’s preferred network is fierce. A multitude of offeri…
On Thursday, Apple released iOS 12.1.4, a patch for several security flaws including the FaceTime group chat vulnerability discovered by a 14-year-old. Also fixed are two zero-day vulnerabilities that had reportedly been actively exploited. All users a…
On Thursday, Apple released iOS 12.1.4, a patch for several security flaws including the FaceTime group chat vulnerability discovered by a 14-year-old. Also fixed are two zero-day vulnerabilities that had reportedly been actively exploited. All users a…
Mobile security expert The App Analyst published findings that the Air Canada app captures screenshots without user permission and forwards them to analytics firm Glassbox, which then inspired TechCrunch to investigate further into the issue. Together,…