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Credit to Author: Chen Yu| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:00:54 +0000
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm, Michelle Davidson| Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:16:00 -0700
With iOS 12 and iPhones that have Touch ID, you can still bypass the iPhone lock screen and trick Siri into getting into a person’s phone. The bypass is the same as it was in earlier versions of the operating system:
Siri then opens the cellular data settings where you can turn off cellular data.
As was the case before, anyone can do this. It doesn’t have to be the person who “trained” Siri.
Credit to Author: Sarah Pike| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:18:31 +0000
Speaking of two-factor authentication — as we often do — did you know some convenient settings render it utterly useless? Let’s do it right.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Victor Yablokov| Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:16:08 +0000
Why doesn’t Kaspersky Lab have an antivirus app for iOS — and what are all those other Internet security suites for Apple mobile devices?
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:22:41 +0000
mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data secretly collected from phones running the stealthy spyware. Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 06:45:00 -0700
Apple recently told the U.S. Congress that is sees customer privacy as a “human right”, though the explanation didn’t at that time extend to how third-party developers treat data they get from iOS apps. Now it does.
Starting October 3, Apple will insist that all third-party apps (including new apps and app updates) submitted to the App Store include a link to the app developer’s own privacy policy.
This is a big change as until now only subscription-based apps needed to supply this information – and it also extends to the privacy policy itself, which Apple insists must be clear and explicitly in explaining:
Credit to Author: Kseniya Turova| Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:42:55 +0000
When I fell victim to sleight of hand and a little bit of fraud, Find My iPhone didn’t save me. Here’s why.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| iPhones have a reputation for being incredibly secure. However, using an iPhone is not an automatic guarantee of invulnerability. These seven tips will help make sure your iPhone is the digital fortress it was meant to be. Categories: Tags: AppleiOSiPhoneiphone securitymobile phone security |
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