TeenSafe, a mobile app that allows parents to monitor their kids' phone usage has suffered a massive data breach. Unfortunately, at least one server used by the app has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children, according to ZDNet, in an exclusive report. In this article, you'll learn more about the type of data compromised and what you can do about it.Â
Here's how to protect yourself from the EFAIL vulnerability in Apple Mail on both iOS and macOS. These temporary fixes come after the new vulnerability was discovered that allows hackers to derive decrypted plaintext from encrypted emails. For the attack to work, the third party must be in possession of your encrypted S/MIME or PGP emails.Â
HTML rendering flaws discovered in Apple Mail for iOS and macOS were detailed this morning, allowing unscrupulous attackers to derive decrypted plain text from your encrypted emails.
If you’re up to speed on everything happening in the jailbreak community as of late, then you might be familiar with the Houdini semi-jailbreak created by Abraham Masri (@cheesecakeufo) many months ago.
While it isn’t a full-fledged jailbreak like Electra and Yalu are, it does provide users with a basic way of customizing their device(s) outside of Apple’s stock parameters, and Masri has just demonstrated a successful Houdini semi-jailbreak on Apple’s latest iOS 11.4 beta:
A spark of good news seems to be circulating in the jailbreak community this week after an iOS 11.2.x-based kernel exploit became publicized.
And if that news wasn’t good enough in and of itself, a Tweet shared by renowned iOS developer and Electra jailbreak tool creator CoolStar underscores interest in toying around with it:
iOS 11.4 packs in a new feature called USB Restricted Mode that was designed to help defeat physical data access by forensic firms like Cellebrite and hacking tools such as GrayKey.
Twitter is testing protecting users’ private messages with end-to-end encryption.
Instagram this morning pushed an update that it says filters out bullying comments.
Twitter on Thursday announced that it recently suffered a computer glitch that exposed some user passwords in plain text. Now the bug was completely internal, and the company says there is no evidence that it suffered a breach, but it is still recommending that users change their passwords.
KeenLab is renowned for demonstrating successful jailbreaks on Apple’s latest firmware, and it seems that they’ve done it once again.
Presenting at InfiltrateCon 2018, KeenLab security researcher Liang Chen demonstrated a fully-jailbroken iPhone X running iOS 11.3.1, which was released by Apple less than one week ago as of this writing.
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll show you how to add a trusted phone number to your Apple Account for two-factor authentication (2FA) purposes. These steps will also help if you want to remove an existing phone number and stop it from receiving 2FA login codes.
In addition to iOS 11.3.1, Apple this afternoon released a macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 security update. As with regular updates, you can find today's Security Update 2018-001 in the Mac App Store under the Updates tab.