Showing posts with label IOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IOS. Show all posts

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Apple iOS Jailbreak Tweaks Have Backdoors; 220,000 iCloud Accounts Hacked

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Jailbreakers Beware! Some shady tweaks that you installed on their jailbroken devices are looking to steal your iCloud login credentials, a report said. The iCloud account details, including email addresses and passwords, of nearly 220,000 jailbreak users have been breached, an online Chinese [...]

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Zero-Day Exploits for Stealing OS X and iOS Passwords.

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I think you'll agree with me when I say: Apple devices are often considered to be more safe and secure than other devices that run on platforms like Windows and Android, but a recent study will make you think twice before making this statement. A group of security researchers have uncovered [...]

Saturday, May 30, 2015

How to Fix iPhone Crash Text Message Bug.

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We reported you about a new bug in the core component of iOS and OS X that causes the device's Messages app to crash and iPhones to reboot if it receives a certain string of characters, Arabic characters, via text message. Many have since fallen victims to this specially crafted sequence of [...] - See more at: http://thehackernews.com/#sthash.VOoMAxtl.dpuf

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Critical SSL Vulnerability Leaves 25,000 iOS Apps Vulnerable to Hackers

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A critical vulnerability resides in AFNetworking could allow an attacker to cripple the HTTPS protection of 25,000 iOS apps available in Apple's App Store via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. AFNetworking is a popular open-source code library that lets developers drop networking capabilities [...]

Thursday, April 23, 2015

WhatsApp updates iOS App with Free Voice Calling Feature

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After rolling out WhatsApp’s Free Voice Calling feature for Android users late last month, the widely popular messaging service has started to roll out the feature to iOS users. Now iOS users can enjoy making free voice calls through WhatsApp, as the new version of the messenger is now live [...]

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

iOS 8 Vulnerability Lets Hackers Crash Any iPhone and iPad Within Wi-Fi Range

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Security researchers have uncovered a zero-day vulnerability in iOS 8 that could repeatedly crash users' Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods when the devices connect to a malicious wireless hotspot. It’s like Denial of Service (DoS) attack on Apple's iOS devices that results in crashing either individual [...]

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Hacker Demonstrates iOS 8.4 Jailbreak

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Quite surprising but the just released Apple’s iOS 8.4 beta has been jailbroken by a well-known hacker. Yes, the first beta of iOS 8.4 released by Apple to the developers last week has been jailbroken by Stefan Esser, commonly known as "i0n1c" in the jailbreak community. i0n1c has also shared [...]

LinkedIn users targeted by hacking group

LinkedIn users targeted by hacking group with fake job offers https://t.co/mPKKLqzF5k via @SiliconANGLE