Powerful FinSpy Spyware Found Targeting iOS and Android Users in Myanmar

One of the most powerful, infamous, and advanced piece of government-grade commercial surveillance spyware dubbed FinSpy —also known as FinFisher —has been discovered in the wild targeting users in Myanmar. Created by German company Gamma International, FinSpy is spying software that can target...

OS Identification: iPhone or iPad

Only port 62078 is open on the remote host. It's highly likely to be an iPhone or an iPad. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid126588; scriptversion"1.3"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2020/01/22"; scriptnameenglish:"OS Identification: iPhone or iPad";...

10 Powerful But Not Yet Promoted Antivirus for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone

By Lesley Haught The vulnerability of the regular computer user is at an all-time high. Not even the strongest of world governments have been able to stay safe from attacks, unauthorized accesses, and data leakages attempted by hackers, malware programs. The big question, then, that every compute...

Apple Patches iMessage Bug That Bricks iPhones with Out-of-Date Software

Apple patched a high-severity iMessage bug found by Google Project Zero that can be exploited by an attacker who sends a specially-crafted message to a vulnerable iOS device. Those iPhones receiving the malicious message are rendered inoperable, or bricked. Apple patched the bug with the release ...

libxslt CVE-2019-13118 Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description libxslt is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. libxslt 1.1.33 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. Technologies Affected Apple TV Apple Watch Apple iOS ...

Cellebrite Claims It Can Unlock Any iPhone

The digital forensics company Cellebrite now claims it can unlock any iPhone. I dithered before blogging this, not wanting to give the company more publicity. But I decided that everyone who wants to know already knows, and that Apple already knows. It's all of us that need to know...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5812

Inadequate security UI in iOS UI in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via a crafted HTML page...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6128

Incorrect URL parsing in WebKit in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via a crafted HTML page...

iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers

Long news article alternate source on iPhone privacy, specifically the enormous amount of data your apps are collecting without your knowledge. A lot of this happens in the middle of the night, when you're probably not otherwise using your phone: IPhone apps I discovered tracking me by passing...

Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for Cops

In a strangely public product announcement, the phone-cracking firm revealed a powerful new device...

Android's Built-in Security Key Now Works With iOS Devices For Secure Login

In April this year, a software update from Google overnight turned all Android phones, running Android 7.0 Nougat and up, into a FIDO-certified hardware security key as part of a push to encourage two-step verification. The feature made it possible for users to confirm their identity when logging...

Apple Security Update: iOS 12.3.2

Apple recommends to install security update iOS 12.3.2 on devices iPhone 8 Plus...

Apple Security Update: iOS 12.3.2

Apple recommends to install security update iOS 12.3.2 on devices iPhone 8 Plus...

MetaTrader 4 vs MetaTrader 5 iPhone app

By Owais Sultan If you are an online trading enthusiast, you can use MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4 iPhone apps to trade forex. Though the prime objective of MetaTrader 4 iPhone app and MetaTrader 5 iPhone app is to enable users to have great trading experience, these forex trading apps vary in...

iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police

"Hey Siri; I'm getting pulled over" can be a shortcut: Once the shortcut is installed and configured, you just have to say, for example, "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over." Then the program pauses music you may be playing, turns down the brightness on the iPhone, and turns on "do not disturb"...

Apple Security Update: iOS 12.3.1

Apple recommends to install security update iOS 12.3.1 on devices iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation...

Apple Security Update: iOS 12.3.1

Apple recommends to install security update iOS 12.3.1 on devices iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation...

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

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. Visual Voicemail is configured over SMS, and carriers inform devices of the...

Calibration Attack Drills Down on iPhone, Pixel Users

A proof-of-concept for a new type of privacy attack, dubbed “calibration fingerprinting,” uses data from Apple iPhone sensors to construct a globally unique fingerprint for any given mobile user. Researchers said that this provides an unusually effective means to track people as they browse acros...

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. Visual Voicemail is configured over SMS, and carriers inform devices of the...