Security News

Safari for iOS 14 and Big Sur: How to prevent websites from tracking your moves online
2020-11-30 19:51

Apple has new features in iOS 14 and macOS 11 Safari that disable trackers from learning which websites you visit to protect your privacy. Apple has introduced a new privacy tracking feature in Safari in iOS 14 and macOS 11 Big Sur that will let you know which websites are tracking you and display the trackers that Safari has blocked.

Apple iOS Safari feature can be used to share "fake news" headlines
2020-11-14 08:15

When browsing webpages, such as news articles in the Safari web browser on an iPhone or iPad, users can choose to select and share a partial text excerpt from the page, rather than the entire page itself. "It's actually a useful feature that's great for pointing out specific passages in blogs, news articles, and more," Juli Clover, the website's editor had said earlier.

Chinese hacking competition cracks Chrome, ESXi, Windows 10, iOS 14, Galaxy 20, Qemu, and more
2020-11-09 07:11

In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. In it, he noted [PDF] that in three years, the optimal cost per component on a chip had dropped by a factor of 10, while the optimal number had increased by the same factor, from 10 to 100.

Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Others Hacked at Tianfu Cup Competition
2020-11-08 23:59

Multiple software products from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Samsung were successfully pwned with previously unseen exploits in Tianfu Cup 2020, the third edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. "Many mature and hard targets have been pwned on this year's contest," the event organizers said.

Update Your iOS Devices Now — 3 Actively Exploited 0-Days Discovered
2020-11-06 00:40

Apple on Thursday released multiple security updates to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities that were revealed as being actively exploited in the wild. The zero-days were discovered and reported to Apple by Google's Project Zero security team.

Apple emits iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS patches to fix three hijack-my-device flaws exploited in the wild
2020-11-05 23:41

Apple on Thursday issued security updates for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS that address three holes reported by Google's Project Zero bug hunters among exploitable flaws found by others. The iPhone giant's security bulletins note that the three flaws discovered and reported by Project Zero - CVE-2020-27930, CVE-2020-27950, and CVE-2020-27932 - are being actively exploited in the wild.

Apple patches three actively exploited iOS zero-days
2020-11-05 14:41

Apple has patched today three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild and affecting iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices. The zero-days were addressed by Apple earlier today, with the release of iOS 14.2, the mobile OS's latest stable version.

How to use the limited photos picker in iOS 14 for added privacy
2020-11-03 17:41

Ensure apps can only access the photos and albums that you designate by using the new limited photos picker in iOS 14. iOS 14 introduced a substantial change to privacy controls around the access of photos and photo albums: Apple is allowing users to choose exactly which photos that apps can access instead of allowing them to be granted full access or no access to the photo library.

Avatier simplifies and secures IAM with release of iOS and Android mobile app platform
2020-10-22 02:45

Avatier announced the release of Avatier for iOS and Android, a new mobile app platform that creates a collaborative, self-service approach to enterprise access without compromising security. Avatier's new mobile experience is designed for the modern workforce, giving employees, customers, contractors and vendors a single mobile app that enables self-service business agility for time-sensitive security requests.

SlashNext launches on-device AI mobile phishing defense for iOS and Android
2020-10-21 02:00

SlashNext announced the on-device AI mobile phishing defense for iOS and Android with natural language and link-based detection to protect users from the exponential increase in mobile-based SMS phishing attacks. Now SlashNext, customers and partners can benefit from the industry's fastest and most accurate, 2.0 mobile AI phishing defense, protecting users from all forms of phishing across all their communication channels - SMS, email, social networking, gaming, collaboration and search - without compromising user privacy or performance.