Apple patches FaceTime eavesdropping bug, credits 14-year old who found it
The easily exploitable FaceTime eavesdropping bug has caught the attention of law makers.
The easily exploitable FaceTime eavesdropping bug has caught the attention of law makers.
Following a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2847857/mobile-security/u-s-government-issues-alert-about-apple-ios-masque-attack-threat.html">U.S. government warning about an iPhone and iPad security threat dubbed Masque Attack</a>, Apple has issued a statement assuring customers that they're probably okay.
The privacy improvements in the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system provide necessary, but limited, protection to customers, experts say.
Antone Gonsalves | 22 Sep | Read more
Apple's iCloud attack is nothing in comparison with the kind of attacks <strong>every tech firm must prepare for</strong>, as they offer payment and connected solutions for home, health and car. Here's some ways for you to protect yourself and for Apple to improve its own security.
Jonny Evans | 03 Sep | Read more
Attackers could compromise iPads and iPhones on a large scale through the infected computers that make up botnets, researchers say.
Tim Greene | 26 Aug | Read more
Apple news doesn't fall far from the tree, which makes it easy to round up some of the most prominent stories this Wednesday.
Once upon a time one of the primary handicaps of iOS devices was the fact that you had to physically connect it to a Windows or Mac PC with a USB sync cable to back it up using iTunes. With iOS 5 Apple introduced iCloud, essentially allowing users to cut the cord. But these iOS backup methods were not created equal, and if you don't choose carefully you could be risking significant data loss. To ensure your iPhone or iPad data is fully protected, here's a look at what each option backs up and when to use it.
Tony Bradley | 15 May | Read more
For the last couple of years CIOs and CSOs have been fighting to manage the rising tide of personal devices entering the enterprise. But that's changing as people start to bring their own cloud apps and services into the enterprise. BYOC – Bring your own Cloud – is the new challenge.
Anthony Caruana | 01 Apr | Read more
Apple has you when you're out and about and they have you in the lounge room through the iPhone and iPad. But now, with their new CarPlay, Apple is trying infiltrate your life while you're driving.
Anthony Caruana | 10 Mar | Read more
Security is an extra-hot topic these days, as all sorts of government agencies short on letters but long on budgets keep getting accused of spying on their own citizens, and debates rage on whether what look like accidental bugs may actually turn out to be quite intentional.
Marco Tabini | 28 Feb | Read more
Connecting to unsecured networks not advisable for Apple users until patch is released for vulnerability
Antone Gonsalves | 25 Feb | Read more
This was supposed to be the year of the iPad's crowning triumph in education--its adoption by and distribution throughout the nation's second-largest school district, Los Angeles. Events haven't quite turned out as planned.
Joel Mathis | 22 Nov | Read more
Settle into your seats for the Return of the Lock-Screen Bypass, Part XVII: The iOS 7-ing. Once again, someon's figured out a way to access data from your iPhone or iPad without entering your lock code. (You do have a lock code, don't you?) As for what makes this time different from all other times, it's the first instance of a bug of this type in Apple's newest OS.
The BYOD policy at a California law firm earned the CIO the nickname of Big Brother. However, the sarcasm stopped when he sprang into action and saved the day when an attorney's smartphone was swiped. The case represents the love-hate relationship workers and IT management have with BYOD.
Tom Kaneshige | 21 Jun | Read more
Startup Watchful Software says it's reviving the technology known as digital rights management (DRM) by expanding it beyond traditional platforms like Microsoft Windows PCs and bringing it to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone.
Ellen Messmer | 14 Mar | Read more