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Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the week in news, including how the FBI vacated Tuesday’s Apple hearing, a crypto iMessage bug that was patched, and the latest hospital to be hit by the ransomware Locky. The two also preview Badlock and what, if any, implications this week’s announcement may have. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_March_25_2016.mp3 Music by Chris...
System Integrity Protection (SIP) was implemented in OS X El Capitan and imposes limitations on what actions that Mac computers’ root accounts can take against protected paths of the operating system. Yesterday at the SysCan360 conference in Singapore, a researcher from SentinelOne disclosed details of a vulnerability that was patched by Apple this week only...
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...
Threatpost Editor Mike Mimoso talks to Synack director of research and well-known OS X hacker Patrick Wardle about the discovery of an OS X malware dropper that likely was developed by the Hacking Team. [embedded content]
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 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...
23 October 2015 - 10:05,
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If you’re one of those people who waits for the first update to an update before you install it… …and you’re also an OS X or an iOS user, then your number’s just been called. In a flurry of Security Advisories published this week [2015-10-21] by Apple, the following security-oriented updates were announced: OS X...
16 October 2015 - 12:58,
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Get ready! We’re about to run the gauntlet of Mactivists, and we’d love you to join us. The story is a simple one: Apple released updates for iMovie and iWork this week (get ready for about 1GB of download in total), bumping up the middle digit of the products’ version numbers. Keynote on OS X,...
22 September 2015 - 12:48,
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You’ve probably read all sorts of to-and-fro about Apple’s App Store this week. Until now, the App Store has been to the malware scene what the planet Earth was to Douglas Adams’s HHGttG: Mostly harmless. That changed a few days ago, when Palo Alto networks published a series of articles about malware that had shown...