Your iMessage messages could be on the verge of becoming substantially more secure. Apple on Wednesday announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called “PQ3.” The company stated that this “groundbreaking” and “state-of-the-art” protocol provides “extensive defenses against even highly sophisticated quantum attacks,” as seen in their public release: Today we are announcing the […]
Following last August’s data breach of security company LastPass, it appears that the same attacker returned to hack an employee’s computer and steal a decrypted password vault. The company reported a security incident in August 2022, saying an unauthorized party gained access to a third-party cloud-based storage service that LastPass uses to store archived backups. […]
Once again, it’s Apple and the government trying to find a balance between security and privacy in the wake of a tragedy. In a letter sent late Monday to Apple’s general counsel Katherine Adams, the FBI has asked Apple to help unlock two iPhones that investigators believe were owned by Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who carried […]
Apple, and its legal department, do not like it when you leak source code for core components of iOS on GitHub. This is exactly what happened, as a chunk of source code, labeled “iBoot”, which is the part of iOS that is responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system, found its way […]
This is interesting. Although it’s not tied to the headline-grabbing San Bernadino case, a federal judge has denied a government motion to force Apple to unlock an iPhone. The ruling could have implications for Apple’s current battle with the FBI over San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone 5c. In the U.S. District Court for the […]