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Researchers released a workaround for Apple’s USB Restricted Mode security feature the same day it was rolled out.
Apple has officially added a controversial security feature, USB Restricted Mode, to iPhones as part of its new iOS 11.4.1, released on Monday.
The move escalates tensions between the phone giant and federal law enforcement when it comes to mobile security.
Social media data privacy controls were the top security topic at Apple’s WWDC on Monday.
Despite yesterday’s leak of the Apple iOS Secure Enclave decryption key, experts are urging calm over claims of an immediate threat to user data.
A hacker identified only as xerub published the decryption key unlocking the iOS Secure Enclave Processor.
Apple has removed one of its top 10 grossing productivity apps after an independent developer’s story about fraudsters’ abuse of the App Store’s Search Ads functionality went viral.
RSA 2017 is previewed and last week’s report on iOS apps being vulnerable to interception attacks, macro malware coming to MacOS, and new Uber open source module are discussed.
Apple is keeping typically tight-lipped about a remote code execution vulnerability it patched in its AirPort router firmware. Last night, Apple released an advisory warning users of the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule base stations that a new firmware was available—AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.6.7 and 7.7.7—and should be applied immediately....
Apple’s latest transparency report published on Wednesday shows a big increase in the number of law enforcement and government requests for account and device data. Publication of the report comes on the heels of the latest chapter in the Apple-FBI tussle over encryption and privacy. Tuesday’s hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee dredged up...