Tag Archives: Apple

Here’s how potent Atomic credential stealer is finding its way onto Macs

Ads prominently displayed on search engines are impersonating a wide range of online services in a bid to infect Macs with a potent credential stealer, security companies have warned. The latest reported target is users of the LastPass password manager. Late last week, LastPass said it detected a widespread campaign that used search engine optimization… Read More »

Breaking Bad Creator’s Sci-Fi Show Gets Teaser Trailer, Release Date

Apple TV+ has finally announced the release date for its newest sci-fi drama series titled Pluribus, which hails from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. This marks Gilligan’s TV comeback in nearly three years since Better Call Saul had wrapped up its six-season run. In addition, the streamer has also shared its first teaser trailer, featuring… Read More »

AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

Beyond market volatility, Nvidia faces ongoing geopolitical challenges that threaten its access to one of its largest markets. Export controls on Nvidia’s chips designed to keep advanced AI tech out of Chinese hands (that date back to 2022, during the early Biden era) have created a thorny obstacle for the company that it has tried… Read More »

Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys

Credit: Apple As the video explains: This new process is fundamentally different and more secure than traditional credential export methods, which often involve exporting an unencrypted CSV or JSON file, then manually importing it into another app. The transfer process is user initiated, occurs directly between participating credential manager apps and is secured by local… Read More »

Apple legend Jony Ive takes control of OpenAI’s design future

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that former Apple design chief Jony Ive and his design firm LoveFrom will take over creative and design control at OpenAI. The deal makes Ive responsible for shaping the future look and feel of AI products at the chatbot creator, extending across all of the company’s ventures, including ChatGPT. Ive was… Read More »

iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

All three of the ChoiceJacking techniques defeat Android juice-jacking mitigations. One of them also works against those defenses in Apple devices. In all three, the charger acts as a USB host to trigger the confirmation prompt on the targeted phone. The attacks then exploit various weaknesses in the OS that allow the charger to autonomously… Read More »

Apple patches 0-day exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack”

Apple on Tuesday patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in virtually all iPhones and iPad models it supports and said it may have been exploited in “an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals” using older versions of iOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24201, resides in Webkit, the browser engine driving Safari and all other browsers… Read More »

Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here’s how

Late last year, I published a long post that criticized the user unfriendliness of passkeys, the industry-wide alternative to logging in with passwords. A chief complaint was that passkey implementations tend to lock users into whatever platform they used to create the credential. An example: When using Chrome on an iPhone, passkeys were saved to… Read More »

Microsoft warns that the powerful XCSSET macOS malware is back with new tricks

“These enhanced features add to this malware family’s previously known capabilities, like targeting digital wallets, collecting data from the Notes app, and exfiltrating system information and files,” Microsoft wrote. XCSSET contains multiple modules for collecting and exfiltrating sensitive data from infected devices. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Mac now detects the new XCSSET variant, and… Read More »