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According to security researcher Bobby Raunch, the attack exploits the way Lost Mode of AirTags is set up. Although Apple’s Bluetooth-enabled item trackers called AirTags are pretty helpful as you can attach important objects like wallets or keys to prevent them from going missing, they are still vulnerable to hacking and not entirely trustworthy. According […]
LA County resident booked in iCloud phishing scam pretended to be an Apple representative. A Los Angeles County man identified as Hao Kuo Chi was arrested for breaching thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and obtaining over 620,000 private photos and 9,000 videos of nearly 306 young women. According to the feds, the 40-year-old La Puente, […]
Apple has developed a system dubbed neuralMatch to locate child sexual abuse material/CSAM, and for now, it will scan iPhones of users in the United States. The perks of the internet are quite obvious and known to all but as they say “with every blessing comes a curse.” Similarly, the digital boom has brought along […]
A Dutch politician could be living his last days at large, as he is facing a sentence of up to three years in prison for a hacking scandal. According to information security specialists, the politician aspiring faces charges for having compromised hundreds of iCloud accounts. Mitchel Van der K, a marketing worker nominated for the […]
Tesla filed a lawsuit against its former employee in March, who was allegedly stealing source codes of Tesla’s Autopilot technology. In a recent filing, the ex-employee has admitted that he was indeed behind this. It was alleged that Guangzhi Cao transferred zip files of the Autopilot source code to his iCloud last year, for which […]
Apple has recently introduced its new iOS 13, macOS Catalina, and iPadOS 13 beta versions with new features arriving every now and then. The most recent one is the ability to sign-up with ease on iCloud’s web version. It is suggested that with iOS 13, iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina, Apple is testing a new […]
Former Lee Davis High School, Virginia teacher Christopher Brannan set to plead guilty to the federal charges of hacking into the computers of Celebrities including Emma Watson and non-celebrities leading to their private data in the Celebgate hacking scandal. 31 years old Christopher Brannan worked at Lee Davis High School for 2 years as a special education teacher. CBS […]
A Connecticut, USA based hacker who hacked more than 200 iCloud accounts and leaked private photos of top Hollywood celebrities and other people was sentenced to eight months in prison last Wednesday (29). In addition to the incarcerated time, George Garofano, 26, is scheduled to serve three more years of probation and 60 hours of community […]
Online scammers seem to be targeting Apple users Enterprise network security experts have discovered a huge phishing campaign aimed at iPhone users. However, this time the campaign is not limited to a specific geographical area. In fact, this is an iOS phishing scam that exploits iCloud email addresses to try to deceive users of iPhone […]
Selena Gomez, a well-known celebrity pop star, is in the news for getting her email hacked that led to the exposure of her personal pictures on the internet. A 21-year old female has been arrested and charged for performing the hacking of Gomez’ email. Susan Atrach from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, has been charged with […]
A popular teen monitoring app has become a victim of a data breach in which plaintext Apple ID passwords are believed to have been compromised. Dubbed as TeenSafe, the app is very popular among parents with over a million subscribers. It is popular because parents can track the whereabouts of their teens. It is advertised as […]
Wi-Fi bug in iOS 11.3 beta 1 compelling users to downgrade About a week ago, Apple had released its first beta version for iOS 11.3. However, it appears that users who are testing this beta version experiencing difficulties due to some nasty bugs. For instance, the Skype application crashes every time it is launched making it […]
Connecticut man hacked more than 250 people.Connecticut-based George Garofano has agreed to plead guilty to charges of hacking more than 250 Apple iCloud accounts, including many that belonged to celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Miley Cyrus, and Kirsten Dust. Garofano, 26, is the fourth the Fappening hacker that pleads guilty, after Emilio Herrera, Edward […]
A New Phishing and scam tools are discovered that used by the cyber criminal to unlock the physically stolen iPhones by compromising the victim’s iCloud accounts through abusing the “find my iPhone” future. Once iPhone user linked to an Apple ID with iCloud Account then the Device owner can lock the Phone if it gets […]
Hackers have leaked private pictures of Fifty Shades of Grey’s Dakota Johnson, Pussycat Dolls member Nicole Scherzinger, actress Faye Alicia Brookes and Addison Timlin. The latest leak came days after explicit and private photos of Tiger Woods, Miley Cyrus and Kristen Stewart, etc. were leaked on a celebrity gossip site. This leak like others also contains images and a video […]
Hackers have leaked personal and private photos of top celebrities in what is being labeled as 3.0 leak. This time, the stars joining the list of targeted celebrities having their private accounts hacked and explicit content leaked are Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, Miley Cyrus, Katharine McPhee, Amy Willerton, Danielle Lloyd, Golf superstar Tiger Woods and his ex-girlfriend Lindsey Vonn, a US […]
Earlier this week, private photos and video clip of the famous WWE Divas Lisa Marie Varon known by her WWE name Victoria and Charlotte Flair were leaked online the internet. The photos showed Charlotte taking selfies of herself in front of the mirror using her iPhone while in Lisa’s case a video clip in her […]
When it comes to phishing scams, the general concept is that cyber criminals will only send a link to trick users into logging in with their social media or email credentials. But since that is an old school trick, the malicious threat actors are aiming at much more than your Facebook or Gmail password. Recently, […]
Somebody just hacked Ex-Premier League star Anthony Stokes lover Eilidh Scott’s iCloud account and leaked 240+ explicit images. Unknown Hackers hacked into Ex-Premier League star Anthony Stokes lover Eilidh Scott’s iCloud account and leaked nude images and videos of the couple Unknown hackers hacked into the iCloud account of former Premier League star and Blackburn […]
It’s just another day and just another privacy breach. This time hackers have leaked nude pictures and explicit videos of celebrities including Sin City’s Rosario Dawson, Miley Cyrus, British actress Suki Waterhouse, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ Kate Hudson and Dexter’s Yvonne Strahovski. The content was leaked and uploaded on a so-called celebrity gossip site Celeb […]
Security experts say they are skeptical that a group of hackers called Turkish Crime Family actually possess a cache of hundreds of millions of Apple iCloud account credentials. A more plausible explanation, they say, is that crooks used credential stuffing attacks to amass a limited number of valid Apple usernames and passwords in attempt to […]