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Not happy with your expensive iPhone and wondered if it's possible to run any other operating system on your iPhone, maybe, how to install Android on an iPhone or Linux for iPhones? "The iPhone restricts users to operate inside a sandbox. But when you buy an iPhone, you own the iPhone hardware."
A malicious email campaign aimed at iPhone owners is making the rounds this week, using a bouquet of different themes to scam victims, just in time for Valentine's Day - including a fake dating app. Once the email body is clicked, the victim is taken on "a seemingly endless redirect loop," until neuropathy is left far behind, and the victim lands on what purports to be a dating app for Apple's iPhone.
Apple has just announced its latest round of security updates. There are plenty of critical holes patched in this raft of updates - so we strongly advise you to patch right away, before anyone figures out how to abuse these newly-documented holes for fun or profit.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an analysis of fresh details on the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' iPhone. Also featured: an update on Microsoft's exposure of customer...
Apple is rolling out a new update to its iOS operating system that addresses the location privacy issue on iPhone 11 devices that was first detailed here last month. In December, KrebsOnSecurity pointed out the new iPhone 11 line queries the user's location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data.
On Monday, Google pushed out an update for the iOS version of Smart Lock, its built-in, on-by-default password manager. Smart Lock - which has been available for Google's Chrome browser since 2017 - now also lets iOS users set up their device as the second factor in two-factor authentication, meaning that you no longer have to carry around a separate security key dongle.
Google has extended its Advanced Protection Program for account security to the iPhone platform, aimed at those that are the most-targeted by cybercriminals: Members of political campaign teams, journalists, activists, executives, employees in regulated industries such as finance or government, and others. These can either be a physical security key or a smartphone's built-in security key.
You can now use your iPhone or iPad, running iOS 10 or later, as a physical security key for securely logging into your Google account as part of the Advanced Protection Program for two-factor authentication. Roid users have had this feature on their smartphones since last year, but now Apple product owners can also use this advanced, phishing-resistant form of authentication as an alternative to a physical security key.
President Donald Trump has weighed in on Apple's decision not to help the FBI unlock iPhones of the suspect in a shooting in Florida, slamming the company in a Tweet that demands Apple "Step up to the plate and help our great Country." "We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements," Trump wrote.
Google users who opt for the Advanced Protection Program to secure their accounts are now able to use their iPhone as a security key. In May 2019, Google made it possible to exchange the physical security key with one's Android device.