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Short Bytes: The latest iOS iteration is slated to arrive on September 16. iOS 9 will bring new features and you need to prepare your iOS device for upgrade. Here’s everything you need to know. The new operating system for iPhone and iPad is just about to arrive. iOS 9 is slated to be released on […]
Apple is traditionally mum on some details of its devices’ hardware, preferring to talk about how “B is X times faster than A” than raw numbers. It’s partly a smart marketing move, using more general but easily understood comparisons than cold, impersonal numbers. But it also relieves Apple from having to concede, much less reveal, […]
Short Bytes: iOS 9 SDK includes new APIs and services that are enabling new categories of apps and features. Multitasking and gaming APIs help enhance app functionality and create immersive games. Expanded search capabilities, and new support for CloudKit, HomeKit, HealthKit, and MapKit extend iOS to more places than ever before. In a recent event Apple […]
For those who were complaining about the size of iPhone 5, this guy from the Fresno State owes his life to iPhone 5. A smartphone can take a life and it can also save a life, same happened with a Fresno state student who was on his way home when an unidentified gunman, in an attempt to […]
A genius teenager was planning to throw a party (maybe at his home), but it is usually hard to convince your parents in agreeing with something you are planning to do, so he went out of the way and opted for a smarter way by hacking into his parent’s mobile phones. Reddit user, nasshole, whose […]
Security researchers have found out that the latest version of the ever-popular Genieo installer adware has fetched a new system to access the Mac Keychain without any prior involvement from the user, allowing this adware to access and distribute sensitive data and user credentials stored within the credential manager. In a nutshell, what Genieo adware […]
Image: blog.kaspersky.com Short Bytes: Researchers have found that hackers have stolen more than 250,000 valid Apple accounts using an iOS malware named KeyRaider. However, this threat only affects the jailbroken devices. Here is a news that might worry you if you recently jailbroke your iPhone. The research team at Palo Alto networks and WeipTech have unveiled a […]
Short Bytes: iOS 9 is finally and it has tons of small and big improvements that will change the way you use your Apple device. Based upon my experience of the iOS 9, I’m going to tell you about the best iOS 9 features. The new OS isn’t some kind of complete overhaul, but it […]
The recent security breach on iOS platform left 220,000 iCloud user accounts vulnerable due to a backdoor privacy attack caused by the installation of a malicious jailbreak tweak, according to an online Chinese vulnerability-reporting platform WooYun. Yes, 220,000 is a huge number considering it happened to iOS, one of the most popular mobile operating system […]
It has been a common understanding that Apple devices are well-protected and less vulnerable. It is also believed that Apple computers are difficult to hack because they have a higher level of protection as compared to the Windows operating systems. But a recent study performed by a team of researchers proved it all wrong. They […]
iCloud Drive is one of the most-used Apple services as it’s a Dropbox-like solution to keep all your devices’ data in sync. Apple describes it as a product that will safely store all your personal data in the cloud that you could access from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or PC. But, what if […]
Protecting customers from fake online transactions has always been a challenging task for the company’s security division, which has forced a popular credit card company to adopt some innovative ways to verify online purchases and to cut down fraud. MasterCard, one of the most popular financial company, while experimenting with the biometric technology, has developed […]
A MacRumors Forum user has stumbled upon the fact that when installing the iOS 9 (beta version), the operating system will delete your third-party apps as a way of making space for the update. The revelation came by way of a pop-up that informed the user that deleted apps would be reinstated once the update […]
The genius minds at Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are coming together to create WebAssembly (also known as wasm). This is a new binary format – bytecode – to be used in browsers in future and promises about 20 times faster performance. Bytecode is a machine-readable instruction set that is faster for web browser to […]
You may need to change the password of your iOS device as a security researcher reported that a flaw in Apple’s systems can let hackers send iCloud users phishing emails, making millions of accounts vulnerable. Jan Soucek (@jansoucek), a white hat hacker or someone who uses his technical skills for good purposes not evil, developed an iOS8.3 […]
It was just the last week when people found out that iPhone could be crashed just by sending a particular text message. In the wake of this iPhone flaw, here comes another security concern regarding the Apple Computers. This problem leaves most Macs at-risk is sleep state without detection. These Macs that enter a hibernation […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that Apple and Google are actually helping ISIS and encouraging terrorism by offering users encrypted communications. A senior FBI official Michael Steinbach stated at the House Homeland Security Committee in Congress that Apple and Google are actually encouraging terrorism by providing encrypted communication facility and US law should immediately […]
Do you own a MacBook and don’t know how to check storage space of you MAC OS X, then let me tell you that it’s pretty easy. There may be some kinds of different reasons that why you need to check the free space and the occupied space on your MAC OS. You might just […]
More than a billion people on this world have iPhones and iPads. Demand for the Apple devices are increasing very much these days. Many people Jailbreak their devices only because they need to record their iPhone screens. But why to void the warranty of your device for a simple task which can be even done […]
Summary: The iOS bug that attacks via Messages app in iOS devices and effectively crashes them has now broken Twitter, Snapchat and other popular apps too — The matter is getting serious as even Mac OS X is not spared by this bug. Apple‘s iOS is considered one of the most secure mobile operating system. However, […]
Richard Stallman, the famous creator of GNU operating system, which is often called Linux, opined in a post in The Guardian that almost every operating system in use today can be qualified as malware. The list goes on with today’s popular mobile platforms as well as desktop operating systems. Stallman emphasizes that any software program […]