Security News

Week in review: The price of the Internet of Things, YiSpecter hits non-jailbroken iOS devices, and the most secure Android smartphones (Help Net Security)
2015-10-12 05:18

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world Volkswagen didn’t make a faulty car: ...

Free tool to remove YiSpecter iOS malware (Help Net Security)
2015-10-08 10:06

Zimperium has released a tool to help iOS users that have been infected with the recently spotted YiSpecter advertising malware remove the threat from their devices. The tool is called zYiRemoval. ...

YiSpecter iOS Malware Abuses Apple Enterprise Certs to Push Adware (Threatpost)
2015-10-05 16:49

New iOS malware called YiSpecter abuses Apple-issued enterprise developer certificates and private APIs to push adware onto devices in China and Taiwan.

Advertising malware affects non-jailbroken iOS devices (Help Net Security)
2015-10-05 08:24

YiSpecter is infecting iOS devices belonging to Chinese and Taiwanese users, and is the first piece of malware that successfully targets both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices, Palo Alto Networks ...

Apple Patches 100+ Vulnerabilities in OS X, Safari, iOS (Threatpost)
2015-10-01 15:04

Apple pushed out its latest operating system, El Capitan, yesterday, and while it boasts many security fixes, the update fails to address the outstanding vulnerability in Gatekeeper that came to...