A bug that Facebook discovered in its photo API may have permitted some third-party apps that you granted permission to access your account to also retrieve photos which you uploaded to Facebook but chose not to post.
Saurik (Jay Freeman) was forced to make a tough decision involving the Cydia Store on Thursday after receiving troubling news from concerned developers in the jailbreak community.
As it would seem, a severe bug discovered in the platform by Andy Wiik could have enabled arbitrary Cydia Store package purchases via users’ PayPal accounts if they were logged into a Cydia account with a linked PayPal account and browsing potentially malicious third-party repositories in the app.
A third-party audit has found absolutely no evidence of Chinese spy chips being secretly embedded on server motherboards manufactured by Super Micro, poking another hole in Bloomberg's bombastic, highly questionable Big Hack story which it refuses to retract.
Apple's allegedly abandoned plans to make changes to its iOS mobile operating system that sources say would've helped reduce the amount of location data collected by your iPhone.
Learn how to block access to specific websites on iPhone or iPad, and protect your child from the dangers of the Internet.
Google is already being scrutinized in the US for allegedly tracking phone users regardless of their privacy settings, and now the Internet giant could be facing a similar lawsuit in Europe.
At long last, the photo-sharing service Instagram has announced that its algorithm will be deleting inauthentic likes and follows that those fitness trainers and life coaches you've been following have bought from specialized services.
I'm sure you've noticed this morning, or during the past few days, a significant rise in online complaints on social media sites like Twitter and Reddit (1, 2), indicating that an unknown number of customers have been locked out of their Apple IDs for security reasons.
The iOS 12.1 update, which released yesterday, has fixed an underreported yet dangerous Lock screen vulnerability which permitted anyone in possession of your iPhone or iPad to view your photos and—worse—use the Share function to send them to anyone.
Wednesday, Tim Cook gave an incredibly passionate keynote address at the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Brussels that took us by surprise. In it, the CEO of Apple vehemently defended privacy as a fundamental human right, called for a comprehensive federal privacy law in the US, warned about the dangers of AI and blasted Silicon Valley technology companies for their sweeping abuse of user privacy.
Facebook’s former chief security officer is calling out Tim Cook for his recent speech about privacy and what he calls the steady rise of the “data industrial complex.” While Alex Stamos says he mostly agrees with what the Apple CEO said during his Wednesday speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, he suggests Cooks is perhaps being hypocritical because of his company's dealings with China.
On Wednesday, Google added a new link on its main Search page that makes it easier to check and change your privacy settings. The link is found on the Google website through any browser, regardless of the device. Google expects to roll out similar links in other Google products next year.