Apple, having long since vowed to create the iPhone as a device that only its owners can open and mired in controversies as to whether to allow law enforcement in, has stated that it is planning an iPhone software update that would effectively disable the phone’s charging and data port hour after the phone is […]
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The debate continues. Apple, along with other major technology companies, have formed the privacy-focused Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) coalition as part of an effort to fight government agencies pushing for the addition of encryption backdoors. The RGS offered the following statement on Wednesday: “Recent reports have described new proposals to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and […]
It helps to keep your proprietary source code same. Grayshift, the firm responsible for the GrayKey iPhone hacking tool, has been targeted an extortionist after its product’s source code was inadvertently exposed to the internet last week. An unknown third party seems to have stolen GrayKey’s source code and leaked part of it online. The […]
Over the years, Apple’s Touch ID technology has proven to be a legal gray area whenever law enforcement or border patrol asked you to hand over your iPhone. A new feature may have surfaced in a beta of iOS 11 that essentially functions as a “cop button”, wherein the iPhone owner can set up a […]
It doesn’t look good when half a billion of your company’s email accounts are hacked. And it looks a bit worse when a cool billion of them in total were hacked. Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it believes more than one billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised in a hack by an unauthorized third party […]