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AceDeceiver trojan surfaces on iOS devices in Chinese marketplace, exploits weakness in FairPlay DRM

A new variant of iOS trojan has been found in the wild. The trojan, named “AceDeceiver”, has been found to infect non-jailbroken iOS devices, was discovered by Palo Alto Networks and is currently affecting iOS users in China. The malware exploits a flaw in Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management system. It apparently uses a technique […]

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Apple wins iPod antitrust lawsuit, avoids potential $1 billion fine

It was a banner day for Apple’s legal department. Or at least the legal team got to clear out an old and potentially costly lawsuit. Per 9to5Mac and CNBC, a jury has decided that Apple is not guilty of violating antitrust laws in the decade-old lawsuit involving the iPod, iTunes Music Store, and digital rights […]

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Apple patent looks towards “gifting” iTunes media via NFC

With any luck, you’ll be able to give iTunes media as gifts. Or, even more conveniently than you do now. Per AppleInsider and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an Apple patent application was published on Thursday for a system that allows users to “gift” media content from iTunes and their own library to […]

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Apple patent explores loan, resale features for DRM-protected content

This could get fairly interesting, as well as get around some parts of DRM that, well, NOBODY likes. Per AppleInsider and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a recently published patent application details of an exhaustive Apple invention covering the resale and loan of owned digital content like e-books, music and movies, possibly portending […]

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Motion Picture Experts Group releases H.265 draft standard, offers Web-based video at twice the quality, half the data size

If you think Web-based video is impressive now, wait a bit. Per AppleInsider, the Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data rate as today’s MPEG-4 H.264 standard. The new H.265 […]