Security News
European privacy activists have filed complaints against Apple over its use of software to track the behavior of iPhone users. NOYB says the iOS operating system creates unique codes for each iPhone that allow Apple and other third parties to "Identify users across applications and even connect online and mobile behaviour."
Learn how to use Apple's Privacy Report in Safari so you can see which websites attempted to track you on your iPhone or iPad. Cross-site trackers operate by tracking you as you surf from one website to another. By default, the mobile version of Safari on your iPhone and iPad tries to prevent cross-site trackers from following you.
A mobile phishing campaign is spreading via text messages purporting to come from an Apple chatbot - and offering "Free trials" of iPhone 12. Clicking the link triggers an interaction - via multiple texts - with a supposed "Apple chatbot."
Apple has updated its iOS and iPadOS operating systems, which addressed a wide range of flaws in its iPhone, iPad and iPod devices. In total, Apple addressed 11 bugs in products and components, including AppleAVD, Apple Keyboard, WebKit and Siri.
The iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 anti-tracking feature is on hold until early 2021 to give developers time to make the necessary changes, according to Apple. Apple released iOS 14 without a new anti-tracking feature.
If you migrated to a different iPhone or Android device and need to transfer Google Authenticator to the new hardware, follow these steps. If you have not enabled two-step authentication, your Google account is at a much higher risk of being hacked; if you have enabled the service, you're familiar with Google Authenticator.
Pl, has published a proof-of-concept exploit for stealing files from iOS and macOS devices via web application code that utilizes the Web Share API. The security flaw, which isn't too scary as it requires some user interaction, has not yet been repaired, though a patch is being worked on. The exploit involves getting someone to open in Safari a web page with a button that triggers the WebShareAPI in a way that launches native Mail or Gmail apps.
Apple this week kicked off another initiative meant to improve the security of iPhones, by offering hackable phones to security researchers. Specifically designed for security researchers, these devices feature unique code execution and containment policies and are offered as part of the company's Security Research Device program, which was initially announced in December last year.
For the protection of our customers, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are generally available. Of course, we know now that Apple did know about the Vim issue mentioned above, and has patched it at last, so any users who were wondering about it can now scratch that one off their list of concerns.
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.