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In addition to fixing the serious crypto vulnerabilities in iMessage that surfaced yesterday, Apple also deployed patches for nearly all of its products, including Safari, OS X, iOS, Apple TV’s tvOS, and watchOS. The iOS update, 9.3, is arguably the most pressing given the cryptographic issue dug up by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, but it...
When Apple released its iOS Security Guide for public consumption, it was an unprecedented look inside the security architecture behind its products. For cryptographer and professor Matthew Green and a team of four Johns Hopkins University graduate students, it was a road map to understanding not only how secure Apple’s iMessage messaging application was, but...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including how Amazon is backtracking on encryption when it comes to their devices, a new set of alleged passcode bypasses for iOS, and the new OS X ransomware KeRanger. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_March_11_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
Apple has yet to patch a series of bypass vulnerabilities in iOS that could enable an attacker to sidestep the passcode authorization screen on iPhones and iPads running iOS 9.0, 9.1, and the most recent build of the mobile operating system, 9.2.1. Like all passcode bypass bugs, an attacker would have to have the device in...
Apple, like most advanced tech companies, understands threats and how to close them off. But one salient point that’s emerged from its ongoing dispute with the FBI over unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s phone is that Apple is a threat to itself. Therefore, expect any future iPhone security updates to take into account that Apple...
When Apple pushed out iOS 9.2.1 earlier this week, it fixed a nasty bug that lingered in the wild for nearly three years and could have let an attacker steal cookies and impersonate victims. The problem stems from the little windows that pop up when you connect to a public WiFi network according to Skycure, an...
Apple has piled on the patches already released by Adobe and Microsoft today, and pushed out updates for iOS, OS X, Apple TV, Safari, and it’s watch-based operating system watchOS this afternoon. Fifty-four vulnerabilities across OS X were patched Tuesday, including fixes for Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and the most recent builds of OS...
9 November 2015 - 11:57,
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It’s about six weeks since we first wrote about XcodeGhost. That’s the Apple Mac malware that was specially created by crooks in China to create iOS malware. You read that correctly. Just as the infamous Stuxnet virus tried to infect PCs with the ultimate goal (allegedly) of indirectly infecting uranium centrifuge controllers, so XcodeGhost aims...
9 November 2015 - 11:02,
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Mobile apps are regularly leaking information to third parties, according to research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and Carnegie-Mellon. The researchers tested 110 popular, free apps – half of them Android and half iOS – to find out which ones share personal, behavioral, and location data with third-party websites. Make that very...
9 November 2015 - 10:27,
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The unflappable and suave James Bond is known for impeccable taste in clothes, cars and cocktails. The Bond brand has been attractive to luxury goods companies including car makers Aston Martin and Jaguar, which produced special editions for the latest film in the franchise, “Spectre.” Sony even made a Bond Edition smartphone, the Xperia Z5, complete...