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View ArticleE-Threats Forecast for 2010
Year 2009 witnessed a wide range of security threats aiming at both end-users and at corporate networks.
View ArticleiPad Users Targeted by Backdoor Dissembled as iTunes Update
An e-mail invitation to an iTunes update gets iPad users
View ArticleApple Releases iOS Best Practices Security Guide
When it comes to tackling security aspects across their operating system range, Apple is known to reluctantly dismiss any insinuation. In this context, the release of “iOS Security Guide” – as it was...
View ArticleiOS 6 Tightens Grip on Apps’ Access to Personal Data
Following a series of allegations of privacy infringement, apps running iOS 6 must require explicit user permission to access calendars, reminders, contacts and photos. In February 2012, Arun Thampi, a...
View ArticleThousands of iPhone apps may access user contacts and track location,...
Research conducted by Bitdefender, the award-winning provider of innovative antivirus solutions, has revealed almost one in five iOS apps can access a user’s iPhone Address Book, while some 41 percent...
View ArticleGizmodo Twitter Account Hack Reveals Apple’s Vulnerability to Social Engineering
News of Gizmodo’s Twitter account getting hacked last Friday , as reported by Forbes, was met with concern as to how exactly the attacker did it. With the discovery that former Gizmodo employee Mat...
View Article12 Million Apple Unique Device Identifiers Exposed After FBI Laptop Compromise
More than 12 million Apple accounts, along with UDIDs, cell number, addresses, and notification tokens have been snatched from under FBI’s nose following an epic laptop breach through a Java exploit. A...
View ArticleFBI Statement Denies Laptop Hack by AntiSec
The FBI issued an official statement denying knowledge about a breached laptop that lead AntiSec to millions of iOS UDIDs. The bureau also claims never to have gathered the information in the first...
View ArticleApple Issues Fix for Zero-Day Vulnerability in OS X
The Java vulnerability discovered in August has prompted Apple to issue their own patch for Mac OS X customers. According to this security announcement, the free update for Java for OS X 2012-005 and...
View ArticleBeware of iOS Apps that Send Plaintext Passwords
Passwords are the last, and sometimes only, line of defense against online criminals. The average computer users know not to leave their critical passwords lying around for all to see. Some iOS app...
View ArticleApple Employees Hacked via Java Plugin Exploit
Apple reported some of its employees were hacked through a Java plugin exploit served through a developer website, but no evidence of data theft was revealed. The few computers compromised were...
View ArticleAmericans Reveal their Employer or Occupation on Google+
Bitdefender security researchers recommend all employees to refrain from revealing the name of the company they are working for and minimize data sharing on social networking platforms. This...
View ArticleApple Password Reset Bug Allows Anyone to Hijack User Accounts
A step-by-step tutorial showing how to change Apple ID passwords posted on the underweb has caused a massive headache to the Cupertino-based technology vendor. The tutorial has forced Apple to put the...
View ArticleChinese Digital Spies Snoop on Apple’s Latest iPhone Designs, Obama Claims
Surprising details emerged after last week’s meeting between US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on the topic of cyber-warfare. Even though most of the meeting topics...
View ArticleApple Developer Center Breach; 100k Accounts Exposed
Apple’s developer site suffered a massive breach last Thursday that resulted in the compromise of roughly 100,000 developer accounts. The intrusion was quickly identified and the affected server was...
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