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Big password hole in iOS 13 beta spotted by testers

July 23, 2019 admin apple, Face ID, iOS, iOS 13, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Operating Systems, password security, passwords, security threats, Vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:18:52 +0000

A security clanger has been spotted in the current beta version of iOS 13 which allows anyone to access a user’s stored web and app passwords without having to authenticate.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/aZwDCfTPAro” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Your Android’s accelerometer could be used to eavesdrop on your calls

July 23, 2019 admin accelerometer, Android, eavesdropping, google, Mobile, Operating Systems, privacy, security threats, side-channel attacks, Spearphone, Vulnerability

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:13:08 +0000

Researchers have created an attack called Spearphone that uses the motion sensors in Android phones to listen to phone calls, interactions with your voice assistant, and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/XizfSFAizIQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

How and why Apple users should switch to DuckDuckGo for search

July 18, 2019 admin apple, iOS, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:54:00 -0700

Like liberty for all, privacy demands vigilance, and that’s why Apple users who care about either are moving to DuckDuckGo for search.

Why use DuckDuckGo?

Privacy is under attack.

It doesn’t take much effort to prove this truth. At time of writing, recent news is full of creeping privacy erosion:

We’ve seen video conferencing solutions that surreptitiously install software on your Macs;
A face changing photography app perhaps implicated in the assembly of a vast database of faces;
Ahousehold name in smart speakers sharing your private conversations with people you don’t know, including chatter you didn’t know was recorded in the first place.

And then there’s Duck Duck Go.

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MalwareBytes Security

Cellular networks under fire from Soft Cell attacks

July 12, 2019 admin call detail records, cellular, China Chopper, compromise, domain controller, hack, hacking, malware, Mobile, nation-state attack, operation soft cell, Poison Ivy, Rats, VPN servers

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:30:00 +0000

We break down the recently revealed attacks on telco operators around the globe, targeting specific high-value individuals.

Categories:

Hacking

Tags: call detail records cellular China Chopper compromise domain controller hack hacking malware Mobile nation-state attack operation soft cell Poison Ivy RATs VPN servers

ComputerWorld Independent

Microsoft delivers Defender ATP security service to Macs

July 9, 2019 admin Enterprise Systems Management, Macs, Mobile, Mobile Management, Security

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:42:00 -0700

Microsoft on Monday made good on a March pledge by announcing that its most sophisticated endpoint security service is now available for Macs.

Microsoft Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) for Mac shifted to what the company calls “general availability” on June 28, wrote Helen Allas, a principal program manager on the enterprise security team, in a July 8 post to a company blog. Core components of Defender ATP, including the latest – “Threat & Vulnerability Management,” which made it to general availability a week ago – now serve Macs.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Message to IT: Trusting Apple and Google for mobile app security is career suicide

July 1, 2019 admin apple, google, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 05:47:00 -0700

Ready for the mobile security news that IT doesn’t want to hear about but needs to? When security firm Positive Technologies started pen-testing various mobile apps, security holes were rampant.

We’ll plunge into the details momentarily, but here’s the upshot: “High-risk vulnerabilities were found in 38 percent of mobile applications for iOS and in 43 percent of Android applications” and “most cases are caused by weaknesses in security mechanisms — 74 percent and 57 percent for iOS and Android apps, respectively, and 42 percent for server-side components — because such vulnerabilities creep in during the design stage, fixing them requires significant changes to code.”

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ComputerWorld Independent

How ‘Find My’ Mac works in macOS Catalina and iOS 13

June 25, 2019 admin apple, Macs, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:13:00 -0700

Apple is changing how its Find My Mac tool works in macOS Catalina and iOS – it will now use Bluetooth and should find your Mac even when it is asleep.

How does ‘Find My’ Mac work?

Apple is combining two apps – Find My Friends and Find My iPhone into a new ‘Find My’ app.

The combined app offers what we are used to from each one of these individual apps, but introduces new tools based on Bluetooth.

The ideas is that it will use low energy Bluetooth signals to help bring people together with lost things.

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