Apple iOS and iPadOS Security Vulnerabilities

Apple iOS and Apple iPadOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices, and Apple iPadOS is an operating system for iPad tablets. A security vulnerability exists in Apple iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, which arises from the possibility that an application may...

Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones

Make sure you update your iPhones: Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click exploit chain dubbed BLASTPASS to deploy NSO Groups Pegasus commercial spyware onto fully patched iPhones. The two bugs, tracked as...

Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days

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--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware c8470da6676326759a76dc9d39a1b78092763c1fe2547cf5521dd1d248479e45 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Using the iPhone Recovery Key to Lock Owners Out of Their iPhones

This a good example of a security feature that can sometimes harm security: Apple introduced the optional recovery key in 2020 to protect users from online hackers. Users who turn on the recovery key, a unique 28-digit code, must provide it when they want to reset their Apple ID password. iPhone...

How to Unlock Your iPhone With a Security Key

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Chinese Police Exposed 1B People's Data in Unprecedented Leak

Plus: A duplicitous bug bounty scheme, the iPhone's new “lockdown mode,” and more of the week's top security news...

Apple Lockdown Mode helps protect users from spyware

Apple has announced a new feature of iOS 16 called Lockdown Mode. This new feature is designed to provide a safer environment on iOS for people at high risk of what Apple refers to as "mercenary spyware." This includes people like journalists and human rights advocates, who are often targeted by...

Apple Pay with Visa Hacked to Make Payments via Unlocked iPhones

An attacker who steals a locked iPhone can use a stored Visa card to make contactless payments worth up to thousands of dollars without unlocking the phone, researchers are warning. The problem is due to unpatched vulnerabilities in both the Apple Pay and Visa systems, according to an academic te...

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...

iPhone Hack Allegedly Used to Spy on China’s Uyghurs

In 2019, a Chinese security researcher working with the internet security and antivirus company Qihoo 360 unveiled an intricately woven exploit: One that would allegedly let a remote attacker easily jailbreak an iPhone X iOS 12.1. The researcher, Qixun Zhao, dubbed the exploit Chaos, for good...

Jailbreak Tool Works on iPhones Up to iOS 14.3

Hackers behind previous iPhone jailbreak tools have released a jailbreak update based on a recently discovered and patched iPhone vulnerability. According to iPhone jailbreakers at UnC0ver, the tool allows users to take full control over unpatched iPhones. The jailbreak—which UnC0ver said works o...

A ‘Magical Bug’ Exposed Any iPhone in a Hacker's Wi-Fi Range

A Google researcher found flaws in Apple's AWDL protocol that would have allowed for a complete device takeover...

About the security content of iOS 11 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

Use iPhone as Physical Security Key to Protect Your Google Accounts

Great news for iOS users! You can now use your iPhone or iPad, running iOS 10 or later, as a physical security key for securely logging into your Google account as part of the Advanced Protection Program for two-factor authentication. Android users have had this feature on their smartphones since...

Null pointer dereference

Apple iPhone 3GS bootrom malloc implementation returns a non-NULL pointer when unable to allocate memory, aka 'alloc8'. An attacker with physical access to the device can install arbitrary firmware...

iPhone BootROM vulnerability description and threat assessment-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x00-related vocabulary AP: application processor. SEP: security coprocessor. SecureROM: also known as the BootROM is cured in the iPhone the read-only area in the section of the code, the area code is to start the chain and start the chain of trust starting point, the main responsible for loadin...

iPhone iOS 13 Lockscreen Bypass Flaw Exposes Contacts

An iPhone lock screen bypass has been discovered that could enable an attacker to access victims’ address books, including their contacts’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses and more. The hack was first discovered by researcher Jose Rodriguez, an Apple enthusiast based in...

Visual Voicemail for iPhone - IMAP NAMESPACE Processing Use-After-Free

Visual Voicemail for iPhone - IMAP NAMESPACE Processing Use-After-Free Visual Voicemail VVM is a feature of mobile devices that allows voicemail to be read in an email-like format. Carriers set up a Visual Voicemail server that supports IMAP, and the device queries this server for new email. Visu...

Latest iOS 12.2 Update Patches Some Serious Security Vulnerabilities

Apple on Monday released iOS 12.2 to patch a total of 51 security vulnerabilities in its mobile operating system that affects iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation. A majority of vulnerabilities Apple patched this month reside in its web rendering engine WebKit,...