This may not be what Apple intended to have happen with iCloud. And there may be a patch coming for it posthaste. According to Slate, security researcher Jeffrey Paul recently noticed that Apple’s default autosave is storing in-progress files—the ones you haven’t explicitly saved yet—in the cloud, not on your hard drive. Unless you decided […]
Category: security
This isn’t the best news. According to Forbes, wireless carriers Verizon and AT&T have ceded that they’re tagging their customers with unique codes that are visible to third parties, making smartphone users far easier to track on the Web than they’ve ever been before, targeted advertising being that much easier to create as a result […]
Hubris, anyone? Just hours after publishing a blog post answering some questions about its upcoming CurrentC mobile payments system and touting the security of its cloud-based storage of sensitive information, the company behind the effort, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) has alerted users of unauthorized access to their email addresses. Per MacRumors, the company released the […]
The most recent shot in the NFC payment wars has been fired. And it kind of made MCX look like a bunch of jerks. Per 9to5Mac, MCX, the retailer consortium behind the CurrentC mobile payment system, has responded to the controversy over its members being required to block Apple Pay or face fines with some […]
Sometimes you’ve got to drop back and punt. Per the Apple developer web site and AppleInsider, Apple announced on Wednesday that it will be removing support for the SSL 3.0 protocol on its Apple Push Notification server. Apple will be switching off SSL 3.0 support in favor of the more secure transport layer security (TSL) […]