Browsing tag
Apple on Monday released security patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari web browser to address multiple security flaws, in addition to backporting fixes for two recently disclosed zero-days to older devices. This includes updates for 12 security vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS spanning AVEVideoEncoder, ExtensionKit, Find My, ImageIO, Kernel, Safari Private Browsing, […]
A previously unknown zero-click exploit in Apple’s iMessage was used to install mercenary spyware from NSO Group and Candiru against at least 65 individuals as part of a “multi-year clandestine operation.” “Victims included Members of the European Parliament, Catalan Presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of civil society organizations,” the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said […]
Time and again, we have seen that sending a string of particular characters in iMessage can lead to strange things on an iPhone. There are different character combinations that can render an iPhone useless. While Apple has been quick to fix such bugs, this time a Google researcher found a nasty one that “bricks” Apple […]
Trump is after many things and wants to put an end to a lot of things. This time, the Trump-led administration might ban end-to-end encryption, as administration officials recently met for a meeting regarding the same. According to a report by Politico, Trump officials met at a National Security Council meeting on Wednesday last week, […]
Zerodium, an infosec and premium zero-day acquisition platform known for selling zero-day exploits to governments has announced that it will be paying a huge amount of money to buy iOS remote jailbreak and exploits related to WhatsApp, iMessage, or SMS/MMS. According to a statement from the founder of Zerodium Chaouki Bekrar, it is very important to intercept messaging […]
Hackers can exploit the vulnerability in iTunes’ Wi-Fi Sync feature and spy on iPhone users. We already have told our readers about the dangers that plugging your iPhone into an unknown hardware device. The reason is that it makes your smartphone vulnerable to a variety of malicious activities including malware. But until now, we had assumed […]
A software developer Abraham Masri has managed to identify a new iMessage bug dubbed as chaiOS, which can infect Apple’s iPhone and Mac devices and crashes or freezes them. The developer posted about his findings on GitHub this Tuesday. According to Masri, the vulnerability was identified when he was attempting to break the operating system […]
iMessage receives several fixes following mammoth research. Apple has added a series of short- and long-term defenses to the iMessage protocol following the private disclosure of several issues discovered by a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University led by Christina Garman, a group that also included famous cryptography expert Matthew Green. The five-man research […]