Apple Illegally Surveilled and Censored Workers, Employee Lawsuit Says Apple has been hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit accusing the company of invasively surveilling its employees and illegally restricting what they say about their jobs. The case, first reported by Semafor, was filed Monday in California’s Santa Clara County superior court Read more…
Apple Releases Urgent Updates to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two zero-day flaws that have come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaws are listed below – CVE-2024-44308 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A Read more…
Apple Opens PCC Source Code for Researchers to Identify Bugs in Cloud AI Security Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Artificial Intelligence Apple has publicly made available its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) Virtual Research Environment (VRE), allowing the research community to inspect and verify the privacy and security guarantees of Read more…
Apple couldn’t tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers Two men involved in an elaborate scheme duping Apple into replacing about 6,000 counterfeit iPhones with genuine iPhones were sentenced to prison this week, the US Department of Justice announced Thursday. Together with their co-conspirators, the 34-year-old scammers, Read more…
Apple Releases Critical iOS and iPadOS Updates to Fix VoiceOver Password Vulnerability Oct 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Privacy / Mobile Security Apple has released iOS and iPadOS updates to address two security issues, one of which could have allowed a user’s passwords to be read out aloud by its VoiceOver assistive Read more…
Fake Trading Apps Target Victims Globally via Apple App Store and Google Play A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer Read more…
Apple Patches AirPods Bluetooth Vulnerability That Could Allow Eavesdropping Jun 26, 2024NewsroomFirmware Security / Vulnerability Apple has released a firmware update for AirPods that could allow a malicious actor to gain access to the headphones in an unauthorized manner. Tracked as CVE-2024-27867, the authentication issue affects AirPods (2nd generation and Read more…
Apple Integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT into Siri for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Apple has announced the launch of a “groundbreaking cloud intelligence system” called Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that’s designed for processing artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in a privacy-preserving manner in the cloud. The tech giant described PCC as the “most Read more…
Apple and Google Launch Cross-Platform Feature to Detect Unwanted Bluetooth Tracking Devices Apple and Google on Monday officially announced the rollout of a new feature that notifies users across both iOS and Android if a Bluetooth tracking device is being used to stealthily keep tabs on them without their knowledge Read more…
New "GoFetch" Vulnerability in Apple M-Series Chips Leaks Secret Encryption Keys A new security shortcoming discovered in Apple M-series chips could be exploited to extract secret keys used during cryptographic operations. Dubbed GoFetch, the vulnerability relates to a microarchitectural side-channel attack that takes advantage of a feature known as data memory-dependent Read more…