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Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a San Francisco-based company that specializes in solutions designed to help organizations manage the Apple devices used by their employees. Fleetsmith's enterprise device management solution automates setup, patching, intelligence and security for Macs, iPhones, iPads and Apple TV devices.
Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Wells Fargo, Salesforce, and IBM have continued to hire in cities across the country despite the economic downturn. Amazon, Deloitte, Bloomberg, and Wells Fargo were all hiring widely for tech positions in New York city.
Apple kicked off its 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday - a virtual event due to the current coronavirus pandemic - and announced several new privacy features coming to its products. The new iOS 14 will allow iPhone users to only share an approximate location with the apps they are using rather than giving them access to precise location data.
During WWDC 2020 on Monday, the world's most valuable company announced the next versions of its operating systems - iOS 14 for iPhones, iPadOS 14 for iPads, watchOS 7 for Apple Watches, and macOS Big Sur for MacBooks - with new features and enhancements. What's important is that the company also highlighted a few new security and privacy features that have been added to the upcoming iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur systems, categorically aiming to help users:better control which apps installed on their devices can access their data,.
Apple made a big change when it released the iPhone X: It ditched Touch ID fingerprint security for a new face-based biometric sign-on tool called Face ID. The fingerprint scanner on most post-iPhone X Apple products is gone, and in its place is a new camera array capable of capturing a face map that is, according to Apple, 20 times less likely to be hacked than a Touch ID fingerprint. Who does Face ID affect? Face ID affects anyone who plans to use an iPhone X or newer Apple device.
Apple has announced the availability of a series of open source tools designed to foster collaboration between password manager developers. Published on GitHub in the Password Manager Resources repository, the tools should help developers create strong passwords compatible with popular websites.
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Apple quietly pushed out a small but important update for operating systems across all of its devices, including a patch for a zero-day exploit used in an iPhone jailbreak tool released last week. Jailbreak tools take advantage of vulnerabilities in iOS to allow users root access and full control of their device, in order to load programs and code from outside of the Apple walled garden.
Researcher Bhavuk Jain discovered a vulnerability in the "Sign in with Apple" feature, and received a $100,000 bug bounty from Apple. Basically, forged tokens could gain access to pretty much any...
Apple on Monday released security patches to address a zero-day vulnerability that had been used to jailbreak iPhones running iOS 13.5. One week later, Apple has released security patches to fix the issue, revealing that the root cause of the bug was memory consumption and that improved memory handling would address it.