Apple hires developer of World's Most Secure Messaging App

Apple is serious this time to enhance its iPhone security that even it can not hack. To achieve this the company has hired one of the key developers of Signal — World's most secure, open source and encrypted messaging app. Frederic Jacobs, who worked to develop Signal, announced today that he is...

Apple is working on New iPhone Even It Can't Hack

Amid an ongoing dispute with the United States government over a court order to unlock iPhone 5C of one of the San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook… ...Apple started working on implementing stronger security measures "even it can't hack" to achieve un-hackability in its future iPhones. The Federal...

Apple Attorney Reveals Dozen Other iPhone Requests from FBI

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s major argument in objecting to the FBI’s request to assist in unlocking San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone 5c is the precedent it would set in doing so. As it turns out, Cook had a leg to stand on when he defiantly objected to a federal magistrate’s order last week...

Now We Know — Apple Can Unlock iPhones, Here's How to Hack-Proof your Device

Apple has been asked to comply with a federal court order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone 5C by one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino mass shootings that killed 14 and injured 24 in December. The FBI knows that it can not bypass the encryption on the iPhone, but it very well knows that App...

Apple Technically Able to Help FBI Crack Shooter's iPhone

Now that the Apple-FBI story has gone mainstream with rallies supporting CEO Tim Cook scheduled for Apple stores nationwide, presidential candidates weighing in, and a cute hashtag FBiOS affixed, it appears that Apple can technically comply with the judge’s order if must. Security company Trail o...

APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-2 iOS 8.1.3

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-2 iOS 8.1.3 iOS 8.1.3 is now available and addresses the following: AppleFileConduit Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch 5th generation and later, iPad 2 and later Impact: A maliciously crafted afc command may allow acce...

New Guidelines Explain How Apple will Legally Process Law Enforcement Data Requests

Despite the contrary regarding NSA’s DROPOUTJEEP program, Apple had always denied working with the NSA in the creation of any backdoors used to spy on its users and also claimed that the NSA doesn't have backdoor access to its data. But, Apple could legally share your phone data with the law...

IRCCloud: Bug in iOS application which could lead to unauthorised access.

Hi, The file under the Preferences folder within the iOS application stores sensitive information: com.irccloud.IRCCloud.plist. This file stores the user's authenticated session identifier. Stealing this information would allow unauthorised access to a user's account. The content of the file can ...

Apple iOS 7.1 Fixes More Than 20 Code-Execution Flaws

Apple has fixed a slew of vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution on the iPhone, along with a number of other security vulnerabilities in the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 7.1. The new release comes just a little more than two weeks after Apple released iOS 7.06 to...

Bluetooth Photo Share Pro 2.0 Local File Inclusion / File Upload

Document Title: =============== Bluetooth Photo Share Pro v2.0 iOS - Multiple Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1218 Release Date: ============= 2014-02-27 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

iPhones Automatically Connect to Rogue Networks

Some iPhone users are vulnerable to having their devices automatically join rogue Wi-Fi networks because of a combination of an iOS feature that allows devices to reconnect to known networks and a directory of carrier-specific wireless network SSIDs that are preloaded into iOS, according to mobil...

New iOS 6.1 Flaw Allows Access to iPhone's Contacts, Photos

UPDATE – With enough work, users can bypass the lockscreen on Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone by exploiting a flaw on its most recent operating system iOS 6.1. By simply making an emergency call and holding down the power button on an iPhone twice, users can gain access to the device’s phone feature,...

iPhone 5 and 4 Hacked with same Exploit

iPhone 5 is vulnerable to the same attack that successfully breached an iPhone 4S at the mobile Pwn2Own hacker contest held this week at the EUSecWest event in Amsterdam. As we reported that Joost Pol and Daan Keuper won the mobile Pwn2Own contest by compromising a fully patched iPhone 4S device...

Serious Security Flaw : iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing

A rather serious security flaw in the iPhone's SMS messaging system has been discovered and revealed by well-known security researcher and jailbreak extraordinaire 'pod2g'. Security flaw affecting all iPhones that he says could facilitate hackers or thieves to access your personal information. Th...

Charlie Miller now working with DoD for Cyber Security

Charlie Miller is a former hacker who has become an information security consultant now working with Department of Defense DoD for helping out with cyber security. He was invited to the conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn, where ...

New Research Shows Possibility of Using an iPhone as a Keylogger

Researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a new technique that enables them to use the accelerometer in an iPhone or other smartphone to capture keystrokes from a nearby PC and decipher the typed words with about 80 percent accuracy. The tactic, while quite complicated, could be used t...

TIOD v1.3.3 for iPhone / iPod touch Directory Traversal

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits Exploit Title: TIOD v1.3.3 for iPhone / iPod touch, Directory Traversal Date: 03/03/2011 Author: email protected, email protected E-Mail : R3dal3rt.team at gmail dot com Twitter : http://twitter.com/R3dAl3rtTeam Software Link:...

iOS Share 1.0 - Directory Traversal

Exploit Title: Share v1.0 for iPhone / iPod touch, Directory Traversal Date: 02/24/2011 Author: R3d@l3rt, Sunlight, H@ckk3y Software Link : http://itunes.apple.com/kr/app/filer-lite-download-view-manage/id350671847?mt=8 Version: 1.0 Tested on: iPhone, iPod 3GS with 4.2.1 firmware There is directo...

SideBooks v1.0 for iPhone / iPod touch, Directory Traversal

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits Exploit Title: SideBooks v1.0 for iPhone / iPod touch, Directory Traversal Date: 02/22/2011 Author: email protected, email protected, Sunlight, Hackkey Software Link: http://itunes.apple.com/kr/app/sidebooks/id409777225?mt=8 Version: 1.0...

e-Sentinel Security Advisory - Ref: Session Hijacking iPhone Facebook Application ver 3.1.2

Tested on iPhone firmware version 3.1.2 Facebook App version 3.1.2 Impact It is possible to usurp valid session IDs in order to gain unauthorised access to facebook profiles. At greatest risk are those handset that have been jailbroken. Description Using known vulnerabilities and exploits to gain...