This could be construed as concerning. According to PCMag, a number of Apple AirTag tracking devices with deactivated speakers have been spotted for sale on eBay and Etsy, raising privacy concerns about the risks of removing one of the AirTag’s safeguards. The modified AirTags, dubbed “Silent AirTags,” have had their internal speaker removed so that […]
Apple Store retail location robberies, where thieves grab display devices from the tables and run, have become a cost of doing business for the company. A recently published patent describes how Apple could fight back. First, Apple uses special software images which render them useless the moment they leave the store location: A source tells […]
If you’re across the pond or down under, this is going to come in handy. Amongst the new products introduced at Apple’s “California Streaming” event on Tuesday were changes to the company’s AppleCare+ policy which has added Theft and Loss coverage to the United Kingdom and Australia. The UK and Australia join some states in […]
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 […]
It doesn’t look good when half a billion of your company’s email accounts are hacked. And it looks a bit worse when a cool billion of them in total were hacked. Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it believes more than one billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised in a hack by an unauthorized third party […]