Tag Archives: iOS

Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more

Kim et al. reader comments 49 with Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple’s Safari browser to divulge passwords, Gmail message content, and other secrets by exploiting a side channel vulnerability in the A- and M-series CPUs running modern iOS and macOS devices. iLeakage, as the academic researchers have named the attack, is practical… Read More »

Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI device

Enlarge / Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right). Getty Images reader comments 75 with Ex-Apple design star Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been discussing the design of an unspecified new AI device, reports The Information, citing two people familiar with the talks. It’s unclear what exactly the… Read More »

ChatGPT update enables its AI to “see, hear, and speak,“ according to OpenAI

reader comments 42 with On Monday, OpenAI announced a significant update to ChatGPT that enables its GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 AI models to analyze images and react to them as part of a text conversation. Also, the ChatGPT mobile app will add speech synthesis options that, when paired with its existing speech recognition features, will enable… Read More »

3 iOS 0-days, a cellular network compromise, and HTTP used to infect an iPhone

Getty Images reader comments 22 with Apple has patched a potent chain of iOS zero-days that were used to infect the iPhone of an Egyptian presidential candidate with sophisticated spyware developed by a commercial exploit seller, Google and researchers from Citizen Lab said Friday. The previously unknown vulnerabilities, which Apple patched on Thursday, were exploited… Read More »

With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?

reader comments 39 with End users, admins, and researchers better brace yourselves: The number of apps being patched for zero-day vulnerabilities has skyrocketed this month and is likely to get worse in the following weeks. People have worked overtime in recent weeks to patch a raft of vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild, with offerings… Read More »

“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware

reader comments 87 with Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky has been hit by an advanced cyberattack that used clickless exploits to infect the iPhones of several dozen employees with malware that collects microphone recordings, photos, geolocation, and other data, company officials said. “We are quite confident that Kaspersky was not the main target of this cyberattack,”… Read More »

Apple rushes out patch for iPhone and iPad 0-day reported by anonymous source

reader comments 31 with 21 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple on Monday patched a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that gives attackers the ability to remotely execute malicious code that runs with the highest privileges inside the operating system kernel of fully up-to-date iPhones and iPads. In an advisory, Apple said that CVE-2022-42827,… Read More »

iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims

Getty Images reader comments 41 with 29 posters participating, including story author Share this story A security researcher says that Apple’s iOS devices don’t fully route all network traffic through VPNs as a user might expect, a potential security issue the device maker has known about for years. Michael Horowitz, a longtime computer security blogger… Read More »

Your iOS app may still be covertly tracking you, despite what Apple says

Getty Images reader comments 68 with 46 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last year, Apple enacted App Tracking Transparency, a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across other apps without first receiving those users’ explicit permission. Privacy advocates praised the initiative, and Facebook warned it would spell certain… Read More »