Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more

Not every secure messaging app is as safe as it would like us to think. And some are safer than others. A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about yo...

Urgent Apple iOS and macOS Updates Released to Fix Actively Exploited Zero-Days

Apple on Thursday released security updates to fix multiple security vulnerabilities in older versions of iOS and macOS that it says have been detected in exploits in the wild, in addition to expanding patches for a previously plugged security weakness abused by NSO Group's Pegasus surveillance...

Zero-Click iMessage Exploit

Citizen Lab released a report on a zero-click iMessage exploit that is used in NSO Groups Pegasus spyware. Apple patched the vulnerability; everyone needs to update their OS immediately. News articles on the exploit...

This Week in Security News - September 17, 2021

2021 Midyear Cybersecurity Report and Apple emergency patches fix zero-click iMessage bug used to inject NSO spyware...

Zero-Click iPhone Exploits

Citizen Lab is reporting on two zero-click iMessage exploits, in spyware sold by the cyberweapons arms manufacturer NSO Group to the Bahraini government. These are particularly scary exploits, since they dont require to victim to do anything, like click on a link or open a file. The victim receiv...

Latest iPhone exploit, FORCEDENTRY, used to launch Pegasus attack against Bahraini activists

Researchers from Citizen Lab, an academic research and development lab based in the University of Toronto in Canada, has recently discovered that an exploit affecting iMessage is being used to target Bahraini activists with the Pegasus spyware. The Bahrain government and groups linked to them—suc...

The Stealthy iPhone Hacks That Apple Still Can't Stop

After another “zero-click” attack, security experts say it's time for more extreme measures to keep iMessage users safe...

CVE-2021-30904

A sync issue was addressed with improved state validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.0.1. A user's messages may continue to sync after the user has signed out of iMessage...

CVE-2021-30904

A sync issue was addressed with improved state validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.0.1. A user's messages may continue to sync after the user has signed out of iMessage...

CVE-2021-30904

A sync issue was addressed with improved state validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.0.1. A user's messages may continue to sync after the user has signed out of iMessage...

Input validation

A sync issue was addressed with improved state validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.0.1. A user's messages may continue to sync after the user has signed out of iMessage...

CVE-2021-30904

A sync issue was addressed with improved state validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.0.1. A user's messages may continue to sync after the user has signed out of iMessage...

CVE-2021-30904

CVE-2021-30904 affects macOS Monterey 12.0.x in the Apple Messages sync flow. The issue is a sync/state validation bug that could allow a user’s messages to continue syncing after signing out of iMessage. Apple fixed this in macOS Monterey 12.0.1 (per HT212869). Connected feeds corroborate the de...

Pegasus Spyware Uses iPhone Zero-Click iMessage Zero-Day

A never-before-seen, zero-click iMessaging exploit has been allegedly used to illegally spy on Bahraini activists with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab. The digital researchers are calling the new iMessaging exploit FORCEDENTRY. In a report published on...

Bahraini Activists Targeted Using a New iPhone Zero-Day Exploit From NSO Group

A previously undisclosed "zero-click" exploit in Apple's iMessage was abused by Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group to circumvent iOS security protections and target nine Bahraini activists. "The hacked activists included three members of Waad a secular Bahraini political society, three members...

CVE-2021-30904: Improper Synchronization

A sync issue was addressed with improved state validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.0.1. A user's messages may continue to sync after the user has signed out of iMessage...

Apple macOS 安全漏洞

Apple macOS is a specialized operating system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac computers. A security vulnerability exists in Apple macOS Monterey before 12.0.1. The vulnerability stems from the possibility that a user's messages may continue to synchronize after the user exits iMessage...

Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMessage and iCloud Storage

Apples announcement that its going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. Here are five news stories. I have been following the details, and discussing it in several different email lists. I dont have time right now to delve into the details, but wanted to post something...

Apple’s search for child abuse imagery raises serious privacy questions

The Internet has been on fire since the August 4 discovery disclosed publicly by Mathew Green that Apple will be monitoring photos uploaded to iCloud for child sexual abuse material CSAM. Some see this as a great move by Apple that will protect children. Others view this as a potentially dangerou...

Here are 5 MacBook Hacks that You Must Know

By Waqas MacBook hacks are endless. There is AirDrop, there is iMessage; the options are limitless but here are 5 quick hacks to make the best out of a MacBook. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Here are 5 MacBook Hacks that You Must Know...