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China executes MITM attack against iCloud and Microsoft account holders

China-based Internet users are in danger of getting their iCloud and Windows Live accounts hijacked and all the information in them slurped up by the Chinese authorities, web …

OS X Yosemite comes with POODLE and Shellshock patches

Last week Apple released a new version of its operating system to consumers. What’s interesting to note is that OS X 10.10 (aka “Yosemite”) also came with a …

New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet

New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted and analyzed by malware …

Apple patches Shellshock bug in OS X

Apple has finally released a security update for OS X that will close up the critical remote code execution Shellshock bug found in the GNU Bash UNIX shell. The update …

Phishers go after unprecedented breadth of targets

Apple is the most phished brand in the world, accounting for 17 percent of all phishing reports sampled and analyzed from the first half of 2014, say the results of the new …

Beware of Apple Wave microwave wireless charging hoax

Excited about the new Wave iPhone wireless charging technology and can’t wait to try it out? Please don’t – it’s a hoax. You risk damaging both your …

Apple drops the “warrant canary” from transparency report

In the wake of the change of Apple’s Privacy Policy, and the encryption technology used in iOS 8 that makes it “not technically feasible” for Apple to …

With iOS 8, Apple won’t be able to unlock phones for the police

With the release of iOS 8, Apple has also updated its Privacy Policy. “The changes were made predominantly to cover new features in iOS 8, or to provide additional …

iOS 8 fixes bucketload of severe security bugs

Apple has released the latest version of its mobile OS on Wednesday, and in it has fixed over 50 vulnerabilities, many of which are very serious: Two vulnerabilities allowed a …

Apple adds two-step verification for iCloud

Apple has announced that the two-step verification option for iCloud accounts now also extends to iCloud backups, preventing attackers who know the target’s password …

What security experts think about Apple Pay

Apple announced Apple Pay, a new category of service that works with iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus through a NFC antenna design, a dedicated chip called the Secure Element, and …

Apple built multi-factor authenticated payment in the right order

As an American living in Europe I have been perplexed at multi-factor authentication for payments. The Americans (laggards in my opinion) have been using magnetic stripe cards …

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