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An inside look at the secrecy that is Apple culture
One of the hallmarks of Apple, ever since Steve Jobs assumed the reigns of the company back in 1997, has been product secrecy. As opposed to many other tech companies who routinely pre-announce products and services that may or may not ever ship, Apple keeps its plans close to its vest and places a lot [...]
Continue reading...Android malware up 472% since July
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: There isn’t much good to say about the way Apple handled app store rejections and submissions in the early days of the iTunes App Store. But if you force yourself to push aside Apple’s former draconian policies for a second, I think we can all agree that Apple’s motivations were at the [...]
Continue reading...Security expert Charlie Miller discovers app store exploit, kicked out of iOS developer program
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: When it comes to iOS and Mac security vulnerabilities, former NSA employee Charlie Miller has proven quite adept at finding them, sometimes seemingly out of thin air. Back in 2009, for example, Miller revealed how he was able to remotely take over any iPhone with just a text message comprised of a [...]
Continue reading...Apple security chief John Theriault departs following missing iPhone scandal
Monday, November 7, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Not too long ago we highlighted that Apple has a security team in place charged with monitoring and helping to stop the proliferation of knockoff Apple products. The problem, for Apple, is a relatively new one and came about following the popularity of the iPod. But things really took off with the [...]
Continue reading...US Dept of Veterans Affairs seeks security clearance for the iPad and iPhone
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Apple hasn’t typically earned too much scratch selling its devices in bulk to Government agencies, but that may be changing soon as the iPad continues to make inroads into all types of employment and management positions. Not wanting to be sitting firmly behind the technology curve, the US Department of Veterans Affairs [...]
Continue reading...Authorities bust fake iPhone ring in Shanghai that used authentic iPhone components
Sunday, October 9, 2011
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By David Goldman: Apple’s problem with knockoff and counterfeit iOS products is well-known. Over the past few years, devices purporting to be iPhones and iPods have become increasingly better developed and harder to separate from the real thing. That said, Apple scored a noteworthy victory recently when a counterfeit iPhone ring in China was disbanded. [...]
Continue reading...Apple has a security team to fight against the proliferation of counterfeit iOS products
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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To a certain extent, the sheer number of Apple knockoff products is flattering. It reaffirms that people hold Apple products in high esteem and demonstrates that devices like the iPhone and iPad are in high enough demand as to create entire criminal syndicates dedicated to manufacturing and selling counterfeit versions of these devices. But that [...]
Continue reading...JailBreakMe author Comex conducts Q&A ahead of his Apple internship
Monday, August 29, 2011
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Last week we reported that Apple had hired famed jailbreaker Comex (real name: Nicholas Allegra) as an intern. Presumably, Apple’s iOS team was tired of having their iOS security handiwork continually hacked/bypassed (with increasing ease no less) by the 19 year old Allegra. Apparently, if you can’t beat em’, hire em’. Hell, Facebook and Microsoft [...]
Continue reading...Apple hires famed JailBreakMe developer Comex as an intern
Friday, August 26, 2011
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Ever since the iPhone was released in 2007, Apple has been involved in a game of cat and mouse with iPhone jailbreakers. “We try to stay ahead,” Steve Jobs once said with respect to iPhone jailbreaking. “People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them from breaking in.” Over the past [...]
Continue reading...Lion beefs up OS X security
Friday, August 12, 2011
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As Apple’s marketshare in the PC market continues to increase, the Mac platform is increasingly becoming a target for hackers. Serious attacks and threats remain few and far in between and there’s certainly no reason to sound any alarm bells, but as the Mac becomes more visible, Apple will have to stay a few steps [...]
Continue reading...JailbreakMe creator Nicholas Allegra, aka Comex, profiled by Forbes
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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Shortly after the iPhone first debuted, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described attempts to keep jailbreakers at bay as a “constant cat and mouse game.” “We try to stay ahead,” Jobs said. “People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them from breaking in.” Since then, jailbreaking has evolved from users swapping [...]
Continue reading...Charlie Miller finds security flaw in Apple’s notebook batteries
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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Apple doesn’t want users tinkering with or even removing their notebook batter, but an overlooked security flaw might give hackers access to a machine’s battery, giving them the ability to wreak all sorts of havoc on a user’s laptop. The security flaw was discovered by security researcher Charlier Miller (shocker) who plans to explain the [...]
Continue reading...The most common iPhone and iPad passcodes
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Unfortunately, the battle between picking a strong password and picking one that’s easy to remember isn’t much of battle at all. The number of people who still choose weak passwords to access their email, for example, is astonishing. When it comes to iPhone passcodes, things are decidedly worse to the extent that guessing someones iOS [...]
Continue reading...Video of the Mac Defender installation process
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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ZDNet has been on the ball with respect to the ongoing back and forth between Mac Defender and Apple’s attempts to thwart the malware. Below is video footage where they show how the malware installs itself and originates from what appears to be an innocuous Google search. If you recall, the malware proliferates via Google [...]
Continue reading...Apple responds yet again to latest variant Mac Defender malware
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Yesterday we reported that it took the folks behind Mac Defender just a couple of hours to skirt around the security measures implemented in Apple’s latest OS X update. But because the latest security update is capable of updating itself manually with new malware or new malware variants, it took Apple less than 24 hours [...]
Continue reading...New variant of Mac Defender circumvents latest OS X security update within hours
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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Apple yesterday released a small security update for OS X Snow Leopard that addresses the Mac Defender malware that’s been making so many waves as of late. Particularly worrisome is that Mac Defender masquerades as an elegantly designed anti-malware program and that the latest variant no longer needs a user to type in their admin [...]
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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