S3 Ep133: Apple takes “tight-lipped” to a whole new level
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 20:59:14 +0000
Entertaining, educational, and all in plain English 🎧📖
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Google and Apple cooperate to address unwanted tracking
Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: Google Tags: Apple Tags: AirTag Tags: Tile Tags: Samsung Tags: Bluetooth Tags: trackers Tags: stalking Tags: car thieves Google and Apple want to create a specification for tech that alerts users when they’re being tracked by AirTags and similar devices. |
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Read moreApple releases first Rapid Security Response update for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS users
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. |
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Read moreTracked by hidden tags? Apple and Google unite to propose safety and security standards…
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 19:58:43 +0000
To bleat, or not to bleat, that is the question.
Read moreApple, Google team up to tackle Bluetooth tracker-stalking terror
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).
Apple, platform security, and the next big war
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.
Apple delivers first-ever Rapid Security Response “cyberattack” patch – leaves some users confused
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 20:46:09 +0000
Just when we’d got used to three-numbered versions, such as “13.3.1”, here comes an update suffix, bringing you “13.3.1 (a)”…
Read moreMac malware-for-hire steals passwords and cryptocoins, sends “crime logs” via Telegram
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 01:23:38 +0000
These malware peddlers are specifically going after Mac users. The hint’s in the name: “Atomic macOS Stealer”, or AMOS for short.
Read moreiOS Lockdown Mode effective against NSO zero-click exploit
Categories: Apple Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Apple Tags: Lockdown Mode Tags: NSO Tags: PWNYOURHOME Tags: FINDMYPWN Tags: LATENTIMAGE Apple’s Lockdown Mode has shown that it can do what it was designed to do by notifying users about an NSO exploit. |
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Read moreS3 Ep131: Can you really have fun with FORTRAN?
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:55:33 +0000
Loop-the-loop in this week’s episode. Entertaining, educational and all in plain English. Transcript inside.
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