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Apple said the leak of its iBoot source will have little to no impact on iOS device security.
The debate over the government’s authority to access private encrypted data on digital devices was amplified when the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray called unbreakable encryption an ‘urgent public safety issue.’
Apple releases patches addressing the Spectre vulnerability impacting its macOS, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
A researcher with the Twitter handle ‘Siguza’ published details of a macOS local privilege escalation vulnerability dating back to 2002 that could give an attacker root access to systems.
Apple rushed out an emergency patch that fixed an bug in High Sierra that revealed APFS volume passwords via the password hint feature.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General and other top cyber policy makers warn the use of strong encryption hobbles law enforcement’s ability to protect the public and solve crimes and is a serious problem.
The FBI can keep details around how much it paid and which company it hired to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone 5C in 2016 secret, the court ruled over the weekend.
Researchers at Duo Security are expected today at Ekoparty to reveal data and a paper that shows Mac users are not receiving EFI firmware updates at expected.
Apple said that macOS’ native Gatekeeper security feature would protect against a Keychain attack disclosed this week, but researcher Patrick Wardle said that won’t help against Mac malware signed with an Apple certificate.
Researcher Patrick Wardle has discovered a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to dump passwords in plaintext from the macOS Keychain. The vulnerability is in macOS High Sierra, Sierra and El Capitan, and has yet to be patched.