How to Lock Apps on iPad
Set your iPad into kiosk mode and pass it around without worrying about someone opening other apps or accessing unwanted content through an accessibility feature called Guided Access.
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Apple Officially Warns Users To Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a recent support document, Apple states that putting wet devices in a bag of rice could “allow small particles of rice to damage your iPhone,” although it doesn’t go into further detail. The company also recommen…
How to Connect Two Bluetooth Speakers to One iPhone
Apple’s iPhone is booming these days only because of the services and security that it provides to the customer. The iPhone users are happy with the premium quality of the product. Apart from the quality of the product, the users also get some go…
Israeli NSO Group Suspected of “MMS Fingerprint” Attack on WhatsApp
By Waqas
The latest report from Swedish telecom security firm Enea sheds light on security vulnerabilities within the widely used messaging platform, WhatsApp.
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New iOS Trojan “GoldPickaxe” Steals Facial Recognition Data
By Deeba Ahmed
This is the first instance of an iOS trojan that has been found stealing facial data from victims.
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iPhone Spyware Exploits Obscure Chip Feature, Targets Researchers
By Deeba Ahmed
Triangulation of Terror: Inside the Most Sophisticated iPhone Spyware Campaign Ever Seen.
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Operation Triangulation attacks relied on an undocumented hardware feature
Experts discovered that Operation Triangulation targeting Apple iOS devices leveraged an undocumented hardware feature. Researchers from the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky discovered that threat actors behind the Operation Triangulation exploited an undocumented hardware feature to target Apple iOS devices. In early June, Kaspersky uncovered a previously unknown APT group that is targeting iOS devices with zero-click exploits as part […]
Apple’s iPhone Hack Attack Warnings Spark Political Firestorm in India
By Waqas
Big Tech vs. Big Brother: Apple Defies India Pressure over iPhone Hacking Alerts.
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New iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices
Apple is rolling out a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that seems well thought out:
When Stolen Device Protection is turned on, Face ID or Touch ID authentication is required for additional actions, including viewing passwords or passkeys stored in iCloud Keychain, applying for a new Apple Card, turning off Lost Mode, erasing all content and settings, using payment methods saved in Safari, and more. No passcode fallback is available in the event that the user is unable to complete Face ID or Touch ID authentication.
For especially sensitive actions, including changing the password of the Apple ID account associated with the iPhone, the feature adds a security delay on top of biometric authentication. In these cases, the user must authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID, wait one hour, and authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID again. However, Apple said there will be no delay when the iPhone is in familiar locations, such as at home or work…
Apple to Add Manual Authentication to iMessage
Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. iMessage is getting it:
The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its name says: it lets you add a manual verification step in an iMessage conversation to confirm that the other person is who their device says they are. (SMS conversations lack any reliable method for verification—sorry, green-bubble friends.) Instead of relying on Apple to verify the other person’s identity using information stored securely on Apple’s servers, you and the other party read a short verification code to each other, either in person or on a phone call. Once you’ve validated the conversation, your devices maintain a chain of trust in which neither you nor the other person has given any private encryption information to each other or Apple. If anything changes in the encryption keys each of you verified, the Messages app will notice and provide an alert or warning…