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Bug in Apples Find My Feature Couldve Exposed Users Location Histories Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apples crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby by deanonymizing users. The findings are a consequence of an exhaustive review undertaken by the Open Wireless Link (OWL) project, a team of researche...

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New language was discovered in iOS 14.5 beta 2 It focuses on zero-click or 0-click hacking. These are sophisticated attacks. Apples about to make it much harder for hackers to take control of unsuspecting iPhones. The companys second iOS 14.5 beta includes language that focuses on a hacking technique known as zero-click, or 0-click, according to Motherboard. With zero-click attacks, hackers can break into a device without the end-user performing a task. Because no interaction is required, these...

Click to Register Apple released its 2021 Platform Security guide, Thursday, outlining its current and year-ahead agenda for its device hardware, software and silicon security. This year’s 192-page report is beefed-up, compared to past reports, with a wealth of new insights into how Apple is tackling security and privacy within its entire mobile, desktop and cloud ecosystem. Previous Platform Security updates have taken a piecemeal approach to address Apple’s security universe, said Rich Mo...

Apple has made the iMessage service even more secure, at a time when there is a lot of concerned conversation around data privacy, security and encryption available on other popular instant messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.

By HIGHLIGHTS BlastDoor Sandbox parses all iMessage content in an isolated sandbox. Apple has introduced the BlastDoor Sandbox to the iMessage framework in iOS in order to prevent execution of malicious code. In the past, there have been various instances where security researchers revealed that a “string of texts” received over SMS could crash your phone or worse, send it into a boot-loop. These kinds of exploits have been reported at least once every year for both iOS and Android smar...

Recently released cryptography code easily undone by trivial buffer overflow Share Copy Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy on Thursday reported a severe flaw in Libgcrypt 1.9.0, an update to the widely used cryptographic library that was released ten days ago. Libgcrypt is a general-purpose crypto module developed for GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG), a free software implementation of the OpenPGP standard (RFC4880). It provides assorted cryptographic primitives or building blo...

Google researcher find new security system that Apple uses to protect your iMessages Google researcher find new security system that Apple uses to protect your iMessages FacebookTwitterLinkedin Gadgets Now / Updated: Jan 29, 2021, 07:16PM IST FacebookTwitterLinkedin Apple has greatly changed its security systems in iOS 14 to secure iMessages from zero-click remote attacks. Having said that Apple hasn’t revealed much about what changes it actually did. Now, Google Project Zero security researc...

Apple has added a new security system in iOS with the new update to protect iPhone and iPad users against cyber attacks via iMessages.Called BlastDoor and discovered by a security researcher with the Google Project Zero team in the iOS 14 ...