Classen et al. reader comments 57 with 41 posters participating, including story author Share this story When you turn off an iPhone, it doesn’t fully power down. Chips inside the device continue to run in a low-power mode that makes it possible to locate lost or stolen devices using the Find My feature or use… Read More »
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 »
reader comments 41 with 32 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple on Thursday released fixes for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, and Macs that give hackers dangerous access to the internals of the OSes the devices run on. Apple credited an anonymous researcher with discovering both vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability,… Read More »
Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images reader comments 70 with 44 posters participating Share this story Russia’s biggest Internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to be sent to servers located in its home country. The revelation relates to software created by Yandex that permits… Read More »
reader comments 20 with 20 posters participating Share this story Scammers pushing iOS malware are stepping up their game by abusing two legitimate Apple features to bypass App Store vetting requirements and trick people into installing malicious apps. Apple has long required that apps pass a security review and be admitted to the App Store… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 58 with 41 posters participating Share this story For the past four months, Apple’s iOS and iPadOS devices and Safari browser have violated one of the Internet’s most sacrosanct security policies. The violation results from a bug that leaks user identities and browsing activity in real time. The same-origin policy is… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 55 with 44 posters participating Share this story Apple has been taking its time fixing an iOS bug that makes it easy for miscreants to completely disable an iOS device unless the victim performs a factory restore and follows other cumbersome steps, a researcher said. HomeKit is an Apple-designed communication protocol… Read More »
A brand new trailer for the upcoming mobile battle royale Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier was released during the 2021 Tokyo Game Show, highlighting some of the classes available to play as. RELATED: Final Fantasy Battle Royale Pre-Registration Begins The new trailer gives players a quick look at some gameplay from each of the classes,… Read More »
Rogue Games is bringing back PlayStation’s iconic Wipeout series, but not in the way you expected. The next Wipeout iteration will be a mobile title coming to both iOS and Android called Wipeout Rush. While it’ll be similarly fleshed out to past iterations, as it features a single-player campaign, a soundtrack by Alastair Lyndsay, and 60 ships that come from past… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 44 with 39 posters participating Share this story Apple has released several security updates this week to patch a “FORCEDENTRY” vulnerability on iOS devices. The “zero-click, zero-day” vulnerability has been actively exploited by Pegasus, a spyware app developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, which has been known… Read More »