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Tag Archives: Apple
Apple iOS 9 is out – with a LOT of security holes patched
As usual, we recommend updating as soon as you can, for the fixes much more than the features.
Jeb Bush says people need to stop “demonizing” the NSA
In a blog post this week laying out his cybersecurity policy proposals, US presidential candidate Jeb Bush said it’s time to stop “demonizing” intelligence officials at the NSA.
Apple iMessage’s end-to-end encryption stymies US data request
Apple recently told a US court that it couldn’t turn over to law enforcement messages that were sent between iPhones via Apple’s iMessage system, which uses end-to-end encryption. And the crypto-wars rage on.
Apple iOS 9 Safari opens the flood gates to ad-blocking
Meanwhile, Chrome users got a scare when Google (inadvertently: WHEW!) disabled AdBlock in YouTube. Cue painfully long video ads.
Children’s apps and websites raise privacy concerns
Members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network say many kids’ websites and apps collect and share too much personal information.
Amazon bans Flash ads – but not for the reason you may have hoped!
Amazon has said “No” to Flash – but the aim is to improve your experience, not your security. Nevertheless, it’s a ban on Flash.
Jeb Bush: encryption makes it too hard to catch “evildoers”
Republican US presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday that encryption makes it harder for the NSA to do its job, and advocated for broad NSA surveillance powers to catch “evildoers.”
Avoid that cyberflash – 60 Second Security
Here’s our weekly 1-minute video: Android, Adobe and Apple’s AirDrop all get a look in this time.
How not to be “cyberflashed” on your iPhone
After writing about “cyberflashing,” we were asked to put our advice on how to avoid it in one place. Here it is.