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Apple wasn’t fooling when it said it wanted to make Macs more secure

September 2, 2022 admin apple, MacOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:55:00 -0700

When Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering last year said, “We have a level of malware on the Mac that we don’t find acceptable,” he apparently really meant it. And Apple seems to be doing about something about it.

Apple is giant taking steps to secure the Mac

Federighi characterized Apple as being in an enduring battle against malware on the Mac. He also explained that between May 2020 and May 2021 the company identified 130 types of Mac malware that infected 300,000 systems.

Given the Mac’s reputation for security, that may seem counter intuitive, but maintaining a secure platform requires constant watchfulness.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Apple pushes out emergency updates to address zero-day exploits

September 1, 2022 admin apple, enterprise mobile management, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 16:46:00 -0700

Apple this week released urgent security updates to address zero-day vulnerabilities on older model iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

The patches, pushed out on Wednesday, address an out-of-bounds write issue that could be exploited by an attacker enabling them to take control of the affected device. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) today encouraged users and IT admins to review Apple’s advisory HT213428 and apply the necessary updates.

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How to protect yourself and your kids against device theft

August 3, 2022 admin awareness, back to school, campus, device, encryption, find, lock screen, Mobile, School, theft, trace, University

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:01:00 +0000

We give you some tips as you gear up to return to school or college to ward off theft, and limit the impact should the worst happen.

The post How to protect yourself and your kids against device theft appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

ComputerWorld Independent

Apple's latest controversy: Expanded App Store advertising

August 1, 2022 admin apple, Mobile, Mobile Apps, privacy, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:03:00 -0700

Depending on how you look at it, Apple may be ramping up ways developers can reach out durectly to customers via its App Store – or building its own business at others’ expense.

What Apple is doing

Apple has had an advertising business of its own ever since Apple’s then CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced us to iAds in 2010. The scale of that offer was always limited to Apple’s platform, but the service arguably failed, with its technology living on in the form of ad slots in Apple News and the App Store.

Apple’s App Store currently hosts just two ad slots, one in the search tab and the other in Search results. You can tell when you are looking at an ad from the blue shade behind the graphic and a small blue badge that says “ad” – these ads are hard to mistake for content.

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WhatsApp warns users: Fake versions of WhatsApp are trying to steal your personal info

July 13, 2022 admin Android, cybercrime, download, fake, Google Play, malware, Mobile, store, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:09:44 +0000

We take a look at warnings of malware-infested WhatsApp downloads offered outside of the Google Play store.

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Sophos named a worldwide leader in unified endpoint management (UEM)

July 12, 2022 admin intercept x for mobile, Mobile, products & services, Sophos Mobile, sophos xdr, UEM, XDR

Credit to Author: Tom Walsh| Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:54:54 +0000

This latest recognition marks three years in a row that Sophos was named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) for Small and Midsize Businesses.

ComputerWorld Independent

Apple slaps hard against ‘mercenary’ surveillance-as-a-service industry

July 7, 2022 admin apple, iOS, MacOS, Mobile, privacy, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:17:00 -0700

Apple has struck a big blow against the mercenary “surveillance-as-a-service” industry, introducing a new, highly secure Lockdown Mode to protect individuals at the greatest risk of targeted attacks. The company is also offering millions of dollars to support research to expose such threats.

Starting in iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura, and available now in the latest developer-only betas, Lockdown Mode hardens security defenses and limits the functionalities sometimes abused by state-sponsored surveillance hackers. Apple describes this protection as “sharply reducing the attack surface that potentially could be exploited by highly targeted mercenary spyware.”

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FCC commissioner wants Apple, Google to remove TikTok from App Stores

June 29, 2022 admin apple, google, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:34:00 -0700

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has written to Apple and Google to request that both companies remove the incredibly popular TikTok app from their stores, citing a threat to national security.

Is your data going TikTok?

Carr warns the app collects huge quantities of data and cited a recent report that claimed the company has accessed sensitive data collected from Americans. He argues that TikTok’s, “pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. data…puts it out of compliance,” with App Store security and privacy policies.

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