No, new features in iOS 8 do *not* include “Apple Wave” wireless microwave frequency charging, regardless of what 4chan tells you. Remember: Don’t let Apple-new-release fever fog your brain, and do NOT believe everything you read on the intertubes!
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Bistro turns the tables on Yelp, offers discounts to customers for 1-star reviews
A business is asking its customers to write one-star reviews on Yelp, in exchange for a 25% discount, after it said it got fed up with Yelp advertising calls.
Tor users could be FBI’s main target if legal power grab succeeds
The US Department of Justice is proposing a power grab that would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to break into computers of people trying to protect their anonymity via Tor or other anonymizing technologies. 
Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, et al. targeted in latest naked celebrity photo leak
Early on Saturday morning, Celebgate flooded the same sites as it did three weeks ago – 4Chan and Reddit, among others – as cyber crooks again posted nude celebrity photos, despite the scuffle of threatened lawsuits and attention from the FBI.
10 security holes that cybercrooks dream about – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s episode of 60 Second Security. Enjoy the latest security news in just one minute…
Apple’s Tim Cook talks privacy: ‘We’re not like all the others’
Apple has launched a new privacy website to explain what it does and doesn’t do with user data. On the front page, a letter from CEO Tim Cook explains that Apple views privacy differently to other internet services who, he says, view users as products and not customers.
Home Depot breach totals: 56 million credit cards exposed, $62 million in losses
Lots of people who speculated about the credit card data breach at the Home Depot turned out to be wrong. But those who suggested that Home Depot’s breach might end up bigger than Target’s turned out to be spot on.
eBay takes flak for leaving rigged iPhone listing up for 12 hours
eBay’s getting flak for its chilled response to a serious XSS attack, sprung when a user clicked on a fake listing for an Iphone 5S and was redirected to a spoofed site that was after users’ login credentials.
Chinese hackers breached US military contractors, says Senate report
Military contractors for the US Transportation Command were breached by hackers associated with the Chinese government at least 20 times in one year, according to a report released Wednesday by the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
Apple ships a sevenfold security surprise, including iOS 8 and OS X 10.9.5
Apple doesn’t have Patch Tuesdays, but it does have Update Surprisedays. We just had one of them, with brand new and more secure versions of iOS, OS X and Safari.