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According to Snyk, SourMint actively performed ad fraud on hundreds of iOS apps and brought with it major privacy concerns to hundreds of millions of consumers. On the surface, the MintegralAdSDK posed as a legitimate advertising SDK for iOS app developers, but its malicious code appeared to commit ad attribution fraud by secretly accessing link clicking activity within thousands of iOS apps that use the SDK. SourMint also spied on user link click activity, improperly tracking requests performed by the app and reporting it back to Mintegral's servers.
Verimatrix announced new protection for Bitcode-enabled iOS applications. Publishing an app to Apple's App Store with Bitcode enabled allows Apple to optimize the app's code for each target device.
Check out a developer's picks of 10 essential iOS apps, which focus on security, productivity, and more. Over the past 13 years, as iPhones and iPads have become fixtures in more users' lives, the number of apps and the Apple App Store ecosystem have expanded to offer services and apps that iOS users rely on each day.
Apple has released a fresh batch of software security updates for its flagship devices. For iOS and iPadOS the 13.6 update includes fixes for 29 CVE-listed vulnerabilities, 10 involving arbitrary code execution.
Microsoft's social-media-for-suits tentacle, LinkedIn, has attracted legal fire for allegedly peering at the clipboard of iOS devices. As well as doubtless making the podcast app a bit worse, the upcoming version of Apple's mobile OS also features a bunch of privacy features, including a notification telling the user when an app is reading from the device's clipboard.
Configure your iOS Lock Screen to block those picking up your device from reading messages, viewing the Today View, or interacting with Siri unless your device is unlocked first. We spend a lot of time on our mobile iOS devices and it may seem that securing our devices with Touch ID and Face ID is all we need to protect our data.
In March, researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk revealed that Android and iOS apps - including the mind-bogglingly popular, China-owned, video-sharing/often in privacy hot water TikTok - could silently, automatically read anything you copy into your mobile device's clipboard. Mysk said that the ability for apps to read content of off nearby devices means that an app on an iPhone could possibly read sensitive data on the clipboards of other connected iOS devices, be they cryptocurrency addresses, passwords, or email messages, even if the iOS apps are running on a separate device.
During the pre-taped keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the company promised to pump up data protection even more with gobs of new features in its upcoming iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and Safari releases. The big ones include the option for users to decline apps' ad tracking.
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,.
A hacker team has released a new method to jailbreak iPhones that they claim uses a zero-day exploit that allows them to jailbreak iPhones running iOS 11 through Apple's most recent version of its mobile operating system - iOS 13.5. Calling it a "Big milestone for jailbreaking," one of its creators, a hacker called Pwn20wnd, heralded the new jailbreak release on Twitter, claiming it's the first zero-day jailbreak for the iPhone platform since iOS 8.