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“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts

Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you won’t be able to do much of anything until you tap “Allow” or “Don’t Allow.” And they’re right next to each other. Kevin Purdy reader comments 61 Human weaknesses are a rich target for phishing… Read More »

Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos

Enlarge / The Internet is unfortunately packed full of criminals seeking to steal sexual (or sexualizable) images from privately held cloud backup accounts. reader comments 34 with 22 posters participating, including story author Share this story The LA Times reported this week that Los Angeles man Hao Kuo “David” Chi pled guilty to four federal… Read More »

Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network

Nick Wright. Used by permission. reader comments 56 with 51 posters participating Share this story For months, Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen sensitive data from potentially millions of its customers and executed malicious code on their phones and computers, a security researcher said on Thursday. Sam Curry, a… Read More »