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Cyberflasher Airdrops rude images to victim’s iPhone
Apple’s AirDrop sends you an image so you can decide whether you want the sender to send it to you. What could possibly go wrong?
Chet Chat Podcast 211 – A virus on a *Mac*? Is NOTHING sacred?
Episode 211 of our weekly security podcast – a quarter-hour of news with attitude. Enjoy. Update Tuesday, Firefox’s zero-day, more Android bugginess, a firmware virus for your Mac …and a tax fraudster busted.
Adobe and PageFair claim ad blockers will cost business $22 billion in 2015
The rapid growth of people using ad blockers is costly to publishers and advertisers – and the trend looks to only grow worse for website owners as ad blocking comes to mobile devices.
Interested in Mac viruses? Here’s Thunderstrike 2, a.k.a. the “firmworm”
When one door closes, another one opens. Thunderstrike, the Mac firmware hole from early in 2015, is back for its sequel, Thunderstrike 2.
iTunes and AppStore remote exploit fixed by Apple
The vulnerability posed “a significant risk to buyers, sellers or Apple website managers/developers”.
Does Siri have a secret signal to summon 911?
Siri gets a lot more publicity than other voice-recognition systems. Especially when there’s a “911” consipiracy theory involved.
Apple ditches Recovery Key in new 2FA process for El Capitan and iOS 9
Apple is beta testing 2FA that cuts out Recovery Key. Good riddance!
“Something stolen, something new” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly 1-minute security video. Fun with a serious side…enjoy!
Smartphone anti-theft “kill switch” law goes into effect in California
It requires all mobile phones sold in the state to be enabled with the anti-theft technology by default. 