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OpenAI’s ChatGPT app for iPad, iPhone hits 500K downloads

May 26, 2023 admin Artificial Intelligence, iOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

OpenAI shipped its ChatGPT app for iPads and iPhones just a week ago, but it has already become one of the most popular applications in the last two years, with over half a million downloads in the first six days. That’s a real achievement, but also a challenge — that’s half a million potential data vulnerabilities.

Not to rest on its laurels, this year’s favorite smart assistant (so far) is now also available in 41 additional nations. There’s little doubt that this has been one of the most successful software/service introductions of all time, but that doesn’t change the inherent risk of these technologies.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Why Apple's iOS 16.6 upgrade will be talk of the town

May 22, 2023 admin apple, iOS, privacy, Security, software development, virtual reality

Apple’s big developer event is approaching, and it looks as if the company will press home its message on privacy as it begins to seed support for the AR operating systems it’s now expected to announce there.

Apple wants to get you updating

As of now, the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) starting June 5 seems set to see Apple introduce its first mixed reality glasses, likely called RealityPro. These will be accompanied by an operating system that recent patent filings suggest will be called xrOS or xrProOS. The event will also see Apple introduce new iterations of its other operating systems, which developers will be able to work with soon after the show.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Apple bans employees from using ChatGPT. Should you?

May 19, 2023 admin apple, Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, iOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Reflecting warnings given earlier, Apple is now among the growing number of businesses banning employees from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other similar cloud-based generative AI services in a bid to protect data confidentiality. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has also barred staff from using GitHub’s Copilot tool, which some developers use to help write software.

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“FleeceGPT” mobile apps target AI-curious to rake in cash

May 17, 2023 admin Android, chatgpt, Featured, fleeceware, iOS, sophos x-ops, threat research

Credit to Author: Jagadeesh Chandraiah| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 10:00:36 +0000

Interest in OpenAI’s latest version of its interactive language model has spurred a new wave of scam apps looking to cash in on the hype

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Apple releases first Rapid Security Response update for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS users

May 9, 2023 admin apple, iOS, ipados, MacOS, news, rapid security response, rsr

Categories: Apple

Categories: News

Tags: macOS

Tags: iOS

Tags: iPadOS

Tags: Rapid Security Response

Tags: RSR

After announcing Rapid Security Response (RSR) last year, Apple has finally released the first RSR patches to the public.

ComputerWorld Independent

Apple, Google team up to tackle Bluetooth tracker-stalking terror

May 2, 2023 admin apple, google, iOS, iPhone, Security

The days when people can be abusively tracked using devices such as Apple’s AirTags may be numbered; both Apple and Google today jointly announced work on a new standard that will prevent this from happening and hinted that Android users will soon be able to tell whether they’re being tracked by an AirTag.

Got to stop tracker abuse

The two companies say they have been working on a new industry specification to help prevent Bluetooth location-tracking devices being used to track people without permission. They also seem to have the industry behind them, as Samsung, Tile, Chipolo, eufy Security, and Pebblebee have all expressed support for the draft specification, which has been filed with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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Apple, platform security, and the next big war

May 2, 2023 admin apple, iOS, iPad, MacOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

When Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2016 warned of a cybersecurity war, he was specifically discussing the pressure Apple then faced to create back doors on its platforms so law enforcement could snoop on users.

He was championing encryption and opposing the creation of designer vulnerabilities that can be exploited by any entity that knows they exist. Since then, we’ve seen a cancerous tumult of surveillance as a service that companies such as the NSO Group break out, each of them using the kind of hard-to-find flaws governments may insist on platform providers creating.

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Security researchers uncover NSO Group iPhone attacks in Europe

April 24, 2023 admin apple, iOS, iPhone, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Earlier this week, we saw research showing the noxious NSO Group continues to spy on people’s iPhones in Mexico. Now, Jamf Threat Labs has found additional attacks against human rights activists and journalists in the Middle East and Europe, one of whom worked for a global news agency.

Older iPhones at most risk

The main thrust of the latest research is that while Apple has taken steps to protect devices running the most recent versions of iOS, these attacks are still being made against older iPhones. Jamf warns that the attacks “prove malicious threat actors will exploit any vulnerabilities in an organization’s infrastructure they can get their hands on.”

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