S3 Ep141: What was Steve Jobs’s first job?
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Apple Defies EU Over Antitrust Charges in Spotify Probe
Apple is set for a showdown with European Union antitrust regulators, insisting it doesn’t need to make any more changes to its App Store after it was hit by formal charges over its treatment of music streaming rivals such as Spotify. From a report: Th…
UK man who pleaded guilty to celebrity Twitter hack gets five years in prison
Joseph James O’Connor, 24, pleaded guilty to cybercrime charges last month for hijacking famous accounts in a bitcoin scamA British man who took part in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities, including Joe Biden and Elon Musk, was sentenc…
SMS Phishers Harvested Phone Numbers, Shipment Data from UPS Tracking Tool
The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing (a.k.a. “smishing”) messages that spoofed UPS and other top brands. The missives addressed recipients by name, included details about recent orders, and warned that those orders wouldn’t be shipped unless the customer paid an added delivery fee.
How to bypass CAPTCHAs online with Safari on iOS 16
Tired of those annoying CAPTCHA images that leave you feeling like you’re solving a puzzle just to log in online? Learn how to use Apple’s “CAPTCHA killer” feature called Automatic Verification in iOS 16.
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Apple fixes zero-day vulnerabilities used to covertly deliver spyware (CVE-2023-32435)
Apple has released patches for three zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32435, CVE-2023-32439) exploited in the wild. The first two have been reported by Kaspersky researchers Georgy Kucherin, Leonid Bezvershenko and Boris Larin followi…
Apple patch fixes zero-day kernel hole reported by Kaspersky – update now!
Apple didn’t use the words “Triangulation Trojan”, but you probably will.
Big tech is trying to weaken new digital markets regulator, Rishi Sunak warned
A legal battle is brewing over how giant firms will be able to appeal against new unit’s decisionsBig tech is trying to use its vast coffers to neuter the powers of the UK’s new tech regulator, Rishi Sunak has been warned, as a fight over the courts be…
Kaspersky Dissects Spyware Used in iOS Zero-Click Attacks
Russian anti-malware vendor shares technical details on spyware implant deployed as part of recent zero-click iMessage attacks.
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iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma Automatically Generates Apple ID Passkeys
You can now forgo entering your password on icloud.com and apple.com domains thanks to newly added passkey support. From a report: When running iOS 17 on an iPhone, any Apple site on the web can rely instead on Face ID or Touch ID to authenticate your …