Maintenance Mode aims to keep phone data private during repairs

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Tags: Samsung

Tags: mobile

Tags: cellphone

Tags: device

Tags: maintenance mode

Tags: privacy

Tags: security

Tags: data

Tags: snooping

Tags: repairs

Tags: fix

We take a look at a new mode developed by Samsung which aims to keep data safe during a repair.

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Gas, a positive social network for teens (no, really)

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Tags: Gas

Tags: social network

Tags: poll

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Tags: mobile

Tags: iPhone

Tags: app

Tags: schools

Tags: kids

Tags: teens

Tags: teenagers

Tags: fun

We take a look at a fairly exclusive app designed for teens which claims to come with none of the nastiness found elsewhere online.

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Man scammed IRL for a phone he sold online

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Tags: scam

Tags: fake

Tags: fraud

Tags: sale

Tags: selling

Tags: bank transfer

Tags: app

Tags: phone

Tags: mobile

Tags: social media

We take a look at reports of scammers using fake bank transfer apps to make it look as though they’ve bought your for-sale item.

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How Ukraine’s MacPaw got its business ready for war

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Jamf touts big boost to enterprise security at JNUC

Jamf opened its annual JNUC event for Apple admins today with a slew of announcements focused on device management and security, a new Jamf Trust app, further information on its recently announced ZecOps deal and other updates likely to be of interest to Apple IT professionals.

The company also committed to supporting Microsoft Device Compliance on Macs later this year, with support for Google’s context-aware zero trust framework (BeyondCorp) on iOS devices in early 2023.

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Jamf buys ZecOps to bring high-end security to Apple enterprise

The Apple-in-the-enterprise story continues to unfold, this week with Jamf’s announced plans to acquire mobile threat detection and response company ZecOps.

Already consumer-simple, Jamf becomes government secure

Jamf will likely reveal more about the motivations behind the deal at its JNUC event for Apple admins, which begins tomorrow. The purchase is the latest move by the Apple-focused enterprise MDM provider to supplement device management with an increasingly effective set of tools to bolster device security.

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Sadly, IT can no longer trust geolocation for much of anything

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Geolocation was once a glorious way to know who your company is dealing with (and sometimes what they are doing). Then VPNs started to undermine that. And now, things have gotten so bad that the Apple App Store and Google Play both offer apps that unashamedly declare they can spoof locations — and neither mobile OS vendor does anything to stop it.

Why? It seems both Apple and Google created the holes these developers are using.

In a nutshell, Apple and Google — to test their apps across various geographies — needed to be able to trick the system into thinking that their developers are wherever they wanted to say that they are. What’s good for the mobile goose, as they say.

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