Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geo-locate devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland say they relied on publicly available…
Academics have suggested that Apple's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can be abused to create a global privacy nightmare.
In a paper titled, "Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems," Erik Rye, a PhD student at the University of Maryland (UMD) in the US, and Dave Levin, associate professor at UMD, describe how the design of Apple's WPS facilitates mass surveillance, even of those not using Apple devices.
Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.
Learn about the latest Adload adware variants, written in Go and intended to bypass Apple's recent XProtect updates.
Since the very first iPhone, the walls of Apple’s meticulously manicured garden have grown ever higher. Now, they’re starting to crumble.
WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram among apps cut from iPhone app store to comply with censorship demand
Apple's updated spyware alert system now warns individual users of potential targeting by mercenary spyware attacks.
C’est un matraquage en règle pour obtenir les identifiants Apple ID auquel ont du faire face certains clients de la marque à la pomme. En effet, une vague de phishing de type « push bombing » ou de « fatigue MFA » a sévi récemment assure le site Krebs on Security. Ces techniques consistent, pour les attaquants, à envoyer de manière répétée des notifications d'authentification à deux acteurs (MFA) sur les terminaux Apple.
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…
A rare case in Danish court shows how automated clicks and fake accounts can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars on Apple Music and Spotify. Experts say it’s the tip of the iceberg.
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The U.S. Department of Justice in a lawsuit filed Thursday is accusing Apple of discarding user security and privacy protections as part of a broader effort to
Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage.
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Staggeringly, Apple thanked the defendant, Noah Roskin-Frazee, in a security update less than two weeks after he was arrested.
One of the hacking campaigns used exploits developed by Variston, a Barcelona-based startup. Sources say the spyware maker is losing staff.
A security researchers shared a picture of the instructions that go along Apple's Security Research Device and more details about this special iPhone.
We review a new macOS backdoor that piggybacks on cracked software to replace Bitcoin and Exodus wallets with malware.
Multiple information stealers for the macOS platform have demonstrated the capability to evade detection even when security companies follow and report about new variants frequently.
Security researchers found that infections with high-profile spyware Pegasus, Reign, and Predator could be discovered on compromised Apple mobile devices by checking Shutdown.log, a system log file that stores reboot events.
By Tyler Sorensen and Heidy Khlaaf We are disclosing LeftoverLocals: a vulnerability that allows recovery of data from GPU local memory created by another process on Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and Imagination GPUs. LeftoverLocals impacts the security posture of GPU applications as a whole, with particular significance to LLMs and ML models run on impacted GPU…
Apple's warnings in late October that Indian journalists and opposition figures may have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks prompted a forceful Behind closed doors, senior officials from Modi's administration demanded that Apple soften the political impact of the state-sponsored warnings, according to Washington Post.
