Security News

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Critical VMware vCenter Server bugs fixed (CVE-2024-38812) Broadcom has released fixes for two...

Apple has launched iOS 18, the latest significant iteration of the operating system powering its iPhones. Along with many new features and welcome customization options, iOS 18 brings several...

Suspected Russian hackers have been hitting iPhone and Android users visiting government websites with exploits first leveraged by commercial surveillance vendors, Google TAG researchers shared....

The Russian state-sponsored APT29 hacking group has been observed using the same iOS and Android exploits created by commercial spyware vendors in a series of cyberattacks between November 2023...

Threat actors started to use progressive web applications to impersonate banking apps and steal credentials from Android and iOS users. [...]

Apple has released the iOS 18.1 Beta to developers, allowing them to test some of its upcoming AI-powered Apple Intelligence features before they are released for testing in the public previews. Apple Intelligence was first unveiled at the company's 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference, revealing Apple's AI strategy for upcoming devices.

SEE: Previous iterations of iOS in these TechRepublic cheat sheets: iOS 17, iOS 16, iOS 15, iOS 14, iOS 13. Apple is expected to release iOS 18 to the general public in Fall 2024.

A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting...

Security researchers reverse-engineered Apple's recent iOS 17.5.1 update and found that a recent bug that restored images deleted months or even years ago was caused by an iOS bug and not an issue with iCloud. Today's report can now ease people's concern that Apple was indefinitely storing media users deleted a long time ago, which would have been a massive breach of privacy.

On Monday, Apple and Google jointly announced a new privacy feature that warns Android and iOS users when an unknown Bluetooth tracking device travels with them. Named Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers, the new feature started rolling out yesterday on Apple devices as part of iOS 17.5 and to Google users on Android 6.0+ devices.