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Launch of Many New iPhone Models May be Delayed. The world’s leading semiconductors and processors’ manufacturing firm and sole supplier of Apple iPhone chipsets, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), became the target of a cyber-attack on Friday night. Reportedly, TSMC had to shut down its manufacturing plants because of the attack. It is revealed that […]
Advanced mobile malware campaign targeted against 13 iPhone users in India and the attacker using an open-source mobile device management (MDM) system to control the compromised devices. It was unclear about the enrollment of this attack to manage the targeted device by attackers and the researchers believe that it could be performed via physical access […]
After receiving complaints regarding abnormal battery discharge across different models of iPhone, Apple has released iOS 11.4.1 which brings minor bug fixes including improved reliability of syncing mail, contacts and notes with exchange accounts, and a fix for the issue that prevented some users from viewing the last known location of their AirPods in Find […]
Over the past years, Apple has been playing cat and mouse with the security researchers and hackers who keep trying to develop new ways to bypass the security of iPhone. Earlier this year, a new challenge came up in the form of an iPhone unlocking device named GrayKey being used by law enforcement agencies. The […]
The attack allows any would-be-hacker to run as many passcodes as they want, without destroying the data. A security researcher has figured out how to brute force a passcode on any up-to-date iPhone or iPad, bypassing the software’s security mechanisms. Since iOS 8 rolled out in 2014, all iPhones and iPads have come with device encryption. Often […]
Apple has always positioned the iPhone as a device that is secure and only the owner of the phone can access it. This has been a problem with the law enforcement officials when they want to crack information from a phone. After a critical spat with the FBI in 2016, Apple refused to divulge details […]
Reportedly, US military wives were threatened with death threats by Russians impersonating as IS hackers. In one of the reported incidents, which occurred in February 2015, army wife Angela Ricketts received death threats while enjoying a bubble bath in her home located in Colorado. She received a message from someone at Facebook on her iPhone, […]
Do you want to transfer data from Android to iPhone? Here are three simple steps to follow. Ever since the world has stepped into the 21st century, the evolution of technology has picked up rapidly. Newer versions of existing technologies are entering the market so rapidly that it is becoming impossible to keep up with […]
The mysterious piece of hardware GrayKey might give a sense of happiness to cops because they can get inside most of the iPhone models currently active, including the iPhone X. The $30,000 device is known to crack a 4-digit iPhone passcode in a matter of a few hours, and a six-digit passcode in 3 days, […]
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 […]
The encrypted messaging app Signal is Edward Snowden’s favorite app. Leonardo Porpora (pseudonym n0sign4l), a 17-year-old high school student from Arezzo, Tuscany-Italy, has discovered an easy to exploit vulnerability in popular encrypted messaging app Signal for iOS that would let malicious hackers bypass the authentication process and access user chats. According to Leonardo, the vulnerability affects all […]
The debate whether law enforcement agencies should be given exclusive access to iOS-powered Apple devices started when the FBI was unable to unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Eventually, FBI found other ways to get inside Apple’s secured digital fortress, through an Israel-based company called Cellebrite. In the latest news, we have come across about a new […]
iTunes will stop working on millions of devices as of May 25, 2018. This Monday, 26 February, Apple announced that it will terminate music store support for Windows XP and Vista computers. Another product that will be discontinued is the first generation of Apple TV. Starting in May, users won’t be able to buy or […]
As per a Motherboard report, the source code of an important part of Apple’s iOS operating system has leaked. The anonymous person behind the leak posted the code on GitHub. The source code being mentioned here is reportedly for iBoot, which is one of the most important parts of iOS. This program takes care of […]
If you are a cryptocurrency investor or fan here is an app for you but it comes with a catch. Meet Sweatcoin, a free app for Android and iOS users based on the idea that the more you exercise, the more cryptocurrency you earn. Sweatcoin Yes, Sweatcoin pays its users cryptocurrency depending how far you have walked and […]
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) director blames encryption for thousands of phones the Bureau could not unlock but then he also supports “strong encryption.” FBI director Christopher Wray said during a conference that the Bureau in 2017 failed to open 7,800 mobile devices and view their contents. The reason for this was that those devices were encrypted. […]
Apple has issued a statement regarding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, confirming all Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but saying there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. Apple, like Microsoft, has urged users to download software only from trusted sources, such as the App Store. The iPhone maker has already […]
The iPhone maker has confirmed all Mac systems and devices running iOS are affected by the vulnerabilities, but also said there are currently no known exploits. Apple has issued a statement regarding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, confirming all Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but saying there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. […]
Los Angeles natives Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas, represented by Wilshire Law Firm, this firm honed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California challenging Apple of slowing down their older iPhone designs when new models come out. Defendant breached the mentioned contracts it made with Plaintiffs and Class Members […]
Like other Apple devices, iPhone X is also a sleek product that is equipped with Face ID facial recognition system. Upon its launch, the company claimed its Face ID is so secure that even high-quality masks such as those used in Hollywood movies couldn’t trick its security system. But then, we witnessed Face ID system getting breached with a […]
After rapidly reinforcing a flaw that acknowledged anyone with access to a High Sierra Mac to take administrative control, Apple still has extra work to do to make its software secure, namely iOS 11, it was demanded this week. Oleg Afonin, a security researcher for password-cracking forensic IT biz Elcomsoft, in an article on Wednesday […]