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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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Mozilla releases Firefox for iOS

If you’ve been hankering for the day Firefox would be available for iOS, it’s finally here. Mozilla has announced that its Firefox browser is now available for iOS and can be used on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Until today, Firefox for iOS was available as a public preview, and only in New Zealand. […]

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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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1Password for iOS updated to 5.4.3, includes bug fixes

1Password’s proven fairly infallible so far and its updates have been useful. On that note, AgileBits announced the release of 1Password 5.4.3 for iOS. The new version offers the following fixes and changes:

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Research team finds major zero-day security flaws in both iOS, OS X operating systems

Well, this is a bit awkward. A group of researchers from Indiana University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have stated that security holes in both iOS and OS X allow a malicious app to steal passwords from Apple’s Keychain, as well as both Apple and third-party apps. The claims appear to have been confirmed […]