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South Korean iPhone Ban: MDM DMZ PDQ

MDM Hindered: Android phones are still OK; this is Samsung’s home, after all ...

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Kaspersky Details Method for Detecting Spyware in iOS

Jeffrey Burt | January 17, 2024 | Apple iOS, iOS spyware, iPhone, Kaspersky Security, Pegasus Spyware

Researchers with cybersecurity firm Kaspersky are detailing a lightweight method for detecting the presence of spyware, including The NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus software, in Apple iOS devices. The new method, which calls ...

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Ohio’s New Social Media Law, Meta’s Link History Feature, 175 Million Passcode Guesses

Tom Eston | January 15, 2024 | Apple, brute-force attack, children, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, iPhone, Link History, Meta, Ohio, , Ottawa, passcode, Passcodes, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, , technology, Teenagers, Weekly Edition

In episode 312, Tom and Scott discuss the implications of a new law in Ohio that may require parental consent for children under 16 using social media, including the pros and cons ...

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Most Advanced iPhone Exploit Ever, Google’s $5 Billion Settlement, Apple’s Journal App

Tom Eston | January 8, 2024 | api, Apple, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Exploit, google, Google Privacy Lawsuit, Information Security, Infosec, ios, iPhone, iPhone Exploit, Journal, Journaling, Mobile, Mobile App, New Year, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, technology, Weekly Edition

In this episode, we discuss the most sophisticated iPhone exploit ever, Google’s agreement to settle a $5 billion lawsuit about tracking users in ‘incognito’ mode, and a new iOS app, Journal. The ...

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New iPhone Exploit Uses Four Zero-Days

Bruce Schneier | January 4, 2024 | backdoors, Exploits, iPhone, kaspersky, Uncategorized, zero-day

Kaspersky researchers are detailing “an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky.” It’s a zero-click exploit ...

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Apple CEO Tim Cook, with superimposed text: “No Such Agency”

NSA iPhone Backdoor? Apple Avoids Russian Blame Game

Richi Jennings | December 28, 2023 | Apple, back door, backdoor, CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32435, CVE-2023-32439, CVE-2023-38606, CVE-2023-41990, FSB, imessage, ios, iPhone, kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Security, nsa, Russia, Russian FSB, SB Blogwatch, spyware, triangulation, Zero Click Attack, Zero-Click Exploit

“No Ordinary Vulnerability” — Operation Triangulation research uncovers new details of fantastic attack chain ...

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Three iPhone 15s sit on a wicker table, with the words “PATCH NOW!” macro’ed on top

iPhone/iPad Warning: Update Now to Avoid Zero-Day Pain

Richi Jennings | October 6, 2023 | Apple, Apple iPhone, Apple zero-day, CVE-2023-42824, CVE-2023-5217, iOS 7, iPadOS Vulnerability, iPhone, iPhone and iPad, iphone update, SB Blogwatch, Zero Day Attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, Zero-day Vulnerability, zero-days

Apple’s embarrassing regression: iOS 17.0.3 fixes yet more nasty zero-days (and the overheating bug) ...

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‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch

Richi Jennings | September 11, 2023 | Apple, BLASTPASS, Citizen Lab, FaceTime, FaceTime bug, imessage, ios, iPhone, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, Pegasus Spyware, Privacy, SB Blogwatch

Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...

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Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware

Bruce Schneier | June 9, 2023 | Exploits, forensics, ios, iPhone, Malware, Uncategorized

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild: Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The timestamps of ...

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