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 …
iCloud wasn’t hacked, says Apple
Apple has released a statement denying that iCloud was hacked to steal nude photos of celebrities. “When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately …
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