Tag: iPhone

June 14, 2018

Apple said Wednesday it was strengthening encryption on its iPhones to thwart police efforts to unlock handsets without legitimate authorization. The move by Apple, the latest in an ongoing clash with law enforcement, comes amid reports of growing use of […]

March 28, 2018

Top FBI officials did not make inaccurate statements before Congress and in court filings about the bureau’s ability to unlock an iPhone belonging to an alleged shooter in the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack, the Justice Department watchdog said Tuesday. […]

February 16, 2018

A new ‘text bomb’ threatens Apple devices, just a single character of the Indian alphabet (precisely the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in India by about 70 million people) can crash your device and block access to the Messaging […]

October 2, 2017

A federal judge ruled last week that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is not obligated to disclose the details of a hacking tool used to access data stored on an iPhone belonging to the man behind the 2015 […]

September 18, 2017

A week ago, Apple debuted iPhone X and Face ID, a new biometric security mechanism that replaces Touch ID. Face ID allows users to unlock their iPhone with their face. The same mechanism can also be used to make purchases […]

November 18, 2016

iPhone users are being warned that their call history may be synced and stored on their iCloud account without their knowledge, making their personal phone records a target for a determined third party. Under a common configuration scenario, where two […]

November 14, 2016

Eight years ago, security researcher Colin Mulliner found and reported an intriguing bug to Apple. Even though the bug was in Safari on iOS, the vulnerability involved unwanted telephone calls, thanks to a special sort of web link using URLs […]

April 25, 2016

The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid hackers more than $1 million to break into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, director James Comey said. Asked at the Aspen Security Forum in London how much the US […]

April 4, 2016

It took one day for Cellebrite, an Israeli mobile forensics firm to go from relative obscurity to becoming arguably the biggest name in cybersecurity. Two days ago the world wondered if the San Bernardino iPhone would ever be unlocked by […]

March 29, 2016

The government will drop its case against Apple after it was able to successfully crack an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook staving off at least temporarily a showdown, which privacy advocates have […]

March 10, 2016

The iPhone 5c at the center of the legal battle between Apple and the FBI might be accessible through a delicate hardware technique, but experts warn it would be difficult. In recent days, the American Civil Liberties Union’s technology fellow […]

January 29, 2016

Much information from our private and work related lives is stored in our smart phones. Losing a device or getting it stolen can be disastrous, way beyond the monetary loss. Apple has a nifty feature which allows to remotely erase and lock your phone […]

January 26, 2016

You already know not to click or tap on suspicious-looking links, but URL shorteners are making that a little more complicated today. Twitter users are passing around a shortened link that directs your browser to CrashSafari.com, a site that does […]

November 3, 2015

A security firm that hunts for undiscovered software bugs is paying out $1 million to a hacking group for breaking into Apple’s mobile operating system. The company, Zerodium, compiles what are known as “zero days,” or security flaws that are […]

September 7, 2015

In simple words, the brand new #iphone 164 will know everything about you. #google, which will have lived through 34 re-branding campaigns and 8 restructuring efforts, will store and process this data in its data centers, which will occupy over […]

August 28, 2015

As expected, #apple will hold this year’s #iphone unveiling on Wednesday, Sept. 9, invitations that went out today to media and analysts signaled. The #event was touted in those invitations, as well as on Apple’s website, with the line, “Hey […]