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FBI director Comey says purchased hack tool will only unlock iPhone 5c units running iOS 9

The tool the FBI bought to crack the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c can only be used on an iPhone 5c running iOS 9. According to FBI director James Comey, the tool will not work on the iPhone 5s or 6 series, a statement Comey offered during a speech late Wednesday at Kenyon College. The […]

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Security researcher examines MacKeeper, says sensitive data for more than 13 million accounts easily accessed

And yet more reasons have surfaced as to why you’d want to punch the entire staff of MacKeeper in their heads. A security researcher claims that extremely poor security has allowed him to access sensitive data for more than 13 million MacKeeper accounts. White-hat researcher Chris Vickery, who has previously exposed data breaches at MLB, […]

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KeyRaider malware steals credential information for 225,000+ jailbroken iOS devices

The bad news is that more than 225,000 Apple IDs and passwords were taken from assorted iPhones via a chunk of malware dubbed “KeyRaider”, which can also remotely lock iOS devices in order to hold them to ransom. The good news is that this only occurred with jailbroken iOS devices and probably didn’t happen to […]

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Researchers demonstrate proof of concept for firmware worm that can directly target Macs

It’s generally been accepted that Apple’s computers are much more secure than their Windows PC counterparts. This isn’t entirely true, as a part of researchers have found that several known vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of all the top PC makers can also hit the firmware of Macs. The researchers have designed a proof-of-concept worm for […]

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Hack: User pulls off ROM hack, runs Mac OS 6.0.1 on Amiga 500 computer

This is one of the cooler old-school projects out there. And it seems to have worked. Apparently, Reddit and imgur user “wowbobwow” was able to get Mac OS 6.0.1 running on an Amiga 500 computer. This was achieved by using an emulator called “A-Max” that allowed Mac ROM chips to be run on the Amiga.