In the realm of “cool things that are cool,” an article on Motherboard notes how hackers and security researchers use “dev-fused” iPhones to bypass Apple’s protections and security features to help discover vulnerabilities and sensitive information. The dev-fused iPhones themselves are rate and have not finished the production process via Apple, making them akin to […]
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This is a bit of a mess. A bug has been discovered in the newly-released iOS 12.1 operating system in which Group FaceTime calls can allow a hacker to access the details of a contact stored on an iPhone, without needing to unlock the device. The public release of iOS 12.1 allowed iPhone and iPad […]
After a brief run, Apple has blocked the GrayKey hacking device in iOS 12. The GrayKey, which was used by law enforcement, was released earlier this year by a company called Grayshift, and founded in part by a former Apple security engineer. The device was marketed as a means of breaking into iPhones as new […]
In these days of massive data breaches and multi-step authentication, perhaps the best question is whether your accounts have been breached in the first place? On Sunday, notable computer maven, philosopher and all-around wise human being Dirk A. Keaton pointed out the mighty haveibeenpwned.com, an aggregator web site that compiles breaches, lets people enter their […]
If you haven’t heard about it, it may be time to change your Facebook password. Facebook on Friday announced that its engineering team last Tuesday discovered that hackers have exploited a vulnerability in its code, allowing hackers to steal Facebook access tokens for almost 50 million accounts. The company stated that hackers took advantage of […]