Why you should never use someone else’s Apple ID on your iPhone
Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:22:44 +0000
How cybercriminals blocked Marcie’s iPhone, and how to avoid a similar fate.
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Innovative anti-phishing app comes to iPhones
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:01:00 -0800
We’re always told never to click on a link we receive in an email in case doing so takes us to some dodgy phishing site where our account details are violated, but what if our email app warned us before we clicked malicious links?
Can this app offer you protection?
MetaCert isn’t fully available yet, but it does seem to be a promising solution that provides email users in enterprise and consumer markets an additional line of defence against clicking on malicious links received in email messages.
The solution emerged from the developer’s earlier work building an API to help app developers add a layer of security to WebView.
Something else is phishy: How to detect phishing attempts on mobile
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:00:56 +0000
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| Phishing is more problematic on smartphones than on desktops. Not only that, approaches to handling phishing attacks on mobile are quite different because their techniques are also different. So, how can users sniff out a mobile phish? Let us count the ways. Categories: Tags: ad-networking phishinghomograph attacksHTTPSiOSMobilephishingphishing appsPunycodesmishingSocial Phishingunicodeurl paddingvishing |
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Read moreTransatlantic Cable podcast, episode 67
Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:58:37 +0000
Dave and Jeff take a look at how promoting cryptocoins has backfired for two well-known celebs — and why hacked printers promoted PewDiePie.
Read moreWill Apple’s iPhone replace your password?
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:00:00 -0800
Imagine using Face ID on your iPhone alongside a password and Touch ID on your computer in order to access highly secure websites, such as online banks, enterprise intranets and confidential online data services.
That’s a possibility as Apple begins testing a new security standard called WebAuthn.
What is WebAuthn?
Apple has begun beta-testing support for the standard in Safari Technology Preview Release 71, thought it does warn this support is an “experimental feature”, so it may go no further than that.
Sophisticated Android clickfraud apps pose as iPhone apps and devices
Credit to Author: Chen Yu| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:00:54 +0000
A collection of Android apps exhibit novel and innovative advertising fraud capabilities<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/aL1P_42frkM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreAltro giorno, altro aggiornamento .. e altro bypass della schermata di blocco dell’iPhone
Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 05:25:15 +0000
Ad ogni aggiornamento di iOS vengono trovati nuovi modi per aggirare la sicurezza delle schermate di blocco.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/oAZJnUEsRvo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreProtonMail launches standalone iOS VPN app
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:22:00 -0800
Encrypted email service provider ProtonMail has launched a standalone virtual private network app for iOS devices. With iOS now added to its list, ProtonMail said it now offers protection for the most popular operating systems, which include Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android.
VPN functionality is prevalent in enterprise security products and management products, according to Phil Hochmuth, program director for IDC’s Enterprise Mobility team. At the same time, consumers are increasingly looking at VPN services to shield their online activities on wired networks, as well as on LTE/4G connections, he said.