How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

Carding -- the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data -- has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovati...

Apple iMessage Information Disclosure (CVE-2019-8646)

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Apple iMessage. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow remote attackers to gain access to sensitive information...

Apple iMessage Flaw Allows Remote Attackers to Read iPhone Messages

Five bugs in Apple’s iMessage service for the iPhone have been uncovered that require no user interaction to exploit, including one that would allow remote attackers to access content stored on iOS devices. First discovered by Google Project Zero security researcher Natalie Silvanovich, Apple has...

Apple iMessage - DigitalTouch tap Message Processing Out-of-Bounds Read

Apple iMessage - DigitalTouch tap Message Processing Out-of-Bounds Read The digital touch iMessage extension can read out of bounds if a malformed Tap message contains a color array that is shorter than the points array and delta array. The method ETTapMessage initWithArchiveData: checks that the...

Viber adds End-to-End Encryption and PIN protected Hidden Chats features

In Brief Viber, the popular mobile messaging app announced Tuesday that it has added full end-to-end encryption for video, voice and text message services for its millions of users. Here, the end-to-end encryption means only you and the person you are communicating with can read the content, and...