China has cited Apple iPhone’s ability to track and time-stamp users’ whereabouts as reason to declare the mobile phone hazardous to state security. 
Tag Archives: Apple
Is Apple slack at security on iOS? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
What went wrong with PayPal’s 2FA? Why did Microsoft do an email U-turn? Is Apple slack at security on iOS? It’ll only take a minute to find out…
SSCC 154: Fraud, viruses, patches and encryption (in that order!) [PODCAST]
Where does your country sit on the fraud list? Just how much can you trust SMSes on Android? Is Apple serious enough about iOS security? And will Google’s End-To-End email encryption plugin save the world? Find out with Chet and Duck in this week’s Chet Chat podcast…
Apple ships updates, including Snow Leopard (ONLY KIDDING!)
Apple just published its latest round of updates for iOS, Apple TV, Safari and OS X, including dozens of security fixes. OS X Snow Leopard users…we’re afraid you missed out once again.
Privacy and iOS 8, USMS blunder and Cryptowall ransomware – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
One minute of fun with a serious side… 60 Second Security – 21 June 2014
Google and Microsoft want to kill your phone if it’s stolen. Do you feel safer?
The law enforcement group Secure Our Smartphones is claiming victory after Google and Microsoft announced they will add a “kill switch” to their mobile operating systems.
Google’s after your health data with ‘Google Fit’ service
Google’s reportedly about to jump into the growing fitness data marketplace – a mosh pit that consumer advocates are already calling a privacy nightmare – to wrestle with Apple and Samsung for the data getting created by fitness trackers and health-related apps.
Apple’s iOS 8 will help keep out Wi-Fi marketers and snoops, but not totally
A small change in iOS 8 will make privacy advocates happy, although it’s going to be a tough pill to swallow for mobile marketers.
Here’s what bugging your own office NSA-style can reveal
A US reporter for National Public Radio found that NSA-style broad surveillance enabled by a pen-testing device and software crunching picked up on his research (in spite of Google’s default search encryption), intercepted uncut interview tape, ferreted out his interview subjects’ phone numbers and email addresses, and more. Still think there’s nobody out there interested in your boring data points?
SSCC 151 – Measuring vulns, Apple and Wi-Fi privacy, Android ransomware and more [PODCAST]
It’s our weekly security pocast! Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn…