Apple’s efforts to use the Apple Watch as a noninvasive glucose meter appears to be making progress, and has reportedly reached a “proof of concept” stage, although it could still take years to reach the market. Per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it will still take time to become part of the Apple Watch, but the research […]
There are times when companies annoy Apple. This is one of those times. Responding to controversy surrounding Zoom, the popular vide conferencing app that allowed websites to automatically add a user to a video call without their permission, Apple has released a silent update to the issue. The update, in turn, removes the hidden web […]
There may be some room for improvement with the WPA3 standard. WPA3, a Wi-Fi security protocol launched by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2018 — is, in practice, better than WPA2, but still fraught with security flaws, according to a recent research paper. “In light of our presented attacks, we believe that WPA3 does not meet […]
As great as Thunderbolt is, there are vulnerabilities to consider. Per 9to5Mac, a security researcher speaking at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg demonstrated a hack that rewrites an Intel Mac’s firmware using a Thunderbolt device with attack code in an option ROM. Known as Thunderstrike, the proof of concept presented by Trammel Hudson infects […]
You may not like doing it, but you’re going to have to snag the newest version of Adobe’s Flash Player plug-in. Per AppleInsider, Apple late Thursday issued a security message saying it has blocked old versions of Adobe’s Flash Player plug-in for Safari, citing a recent flaw that could potentially allow hackers to harvest browser […]