Security News

Remote Wi-Fi Attack Backdoors iPhone 7
2017-09-27 12:00

Google’s Project Zero released a proof-of-concept attack against a Wi-Fi firmware vulnerability in Broadcom chips that backdoors the iPhone 7. The flaw was patched in iOS 11.

Google Researcher Publishes PoC Exploit for Apple iPhone Wi-Fi Chip Hack
2017-09-27 03:49

You have now another good reason to update your iPhone to newly released iOS 11—a security vulnerability in iOS 10 and earlier now has a working exploit publicly available. Gal Beniamini, a...

iPhone X gets facial authentication, is the enterprise next?
2017-09-15 14:34

This week, Apple debuted the iPhone X which kills the Touch ID fingerprint scanner in favor of a 3D facial scanning technology called FaceID. Soon, iPhone users will depend on face recognition in...

Another iPhone Change to Frustrate the Police
2017-09-15 11:28

I recently wrote about the new ability to disable the Touch ID login on iPhones. This is important because of a weirdness in current US law that protects people's passcodes from forced disclosure...

Apple says Face ID didn’t actually fail during its iPhone X event
2017-09-14 15:28

The iPhone maker says its new face unlocking tech worked as intended.

Apple Brings FaceID to New iPhone X
2017-09-13 18:20

iPhone X Uses Facial Recognition to Unlock Device, Apple Says 1 in 1,000,000 Chance of False Positive read more

A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones
2017-09-11 11:12

Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden have designed a hardware device that attaches to an iPhone and monitors it for malicious surveillance activities, even in instances where the phone's...

Man Jailed 6 Months for Refusing to Give Police his iPhone Passcode (The Hackers News)
2017-06-05 01:07

Remember Ramona Fricosu? A Colorado woman was ordered to unlock her encrypted Toshiba laptop while the FBI was investigating alleged mortgage fraud in 2012, but she declined to decrypt the laptop...