Enlarge / Insomnia people and mobile-addiction concepts. (credit: Getty Images) Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data including your location, phone number, and local network details to Apple or Google. Now, a researcher has provided a side-by-side comparison that suggests that, while both iOS and Android collect handset data… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Facebook said it has disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware that spied on Uyghur people from the Xinjiang region of China. Malware for both mobile OSes had advanced capabilities that could steal just about anything stored on an infected device. The… Read More »
reader comments 39 with 32 posters participating Share this story A team of advanced hackers exploited no fewer than 11 zeroday vulnerabilities in a nine-month campaign that used compromised websites to infect fully patched devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, a Google researcher said. Using novel exploitation and obfuscation techniques, a mastery of a wide… Read More »
Enlarge / Uberwachung, Symbolbild, Datensicherheit, Datenhoheit Westend61 | Getty Images reader comments 61 with 41 posters participating Share this story Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national security is at stake. But new… Read More »
Enlarge / Just some of the iDevice types that Corellium didn’t break one law—but may still have broken another—by emulating. reader comments 13 with 11 posters participating Share this story Security firm Corellium, which develops software that researchers can use to analyze Apple products, has been handed a partial victory in Apple’s lawsuit against it,… Read More »
Enlarge / That’s a lot of screen. Samuel Axon reader comments 144 with 106 posters participating Share this story Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers remote access to the entire device—over Wi-Fi, with no user interaction required… Read More »
Join Al Mega for a NEW Comic Crusaders Podcast as he is joined by guest, Nathan Doom, the Product & Illustration Pro behind The Jump’s new App, Behind the Con! [embedded content] Learn more at thejump.com/behindthecon or go directly to The Jump BTC Download The Jump app in the App Store, Google Play or check… Read More »