Earlier this year it was reported that Apple brought on contractors to listen to Siri recordings, all in an effort to improve the overall quality of Siri and the digital assistant's accuracy.
The next time you receive a password reset email that purports to be from Instagram, or spot a similar phishing scam in your mailbox, be advised that the popular photo-sharing service now offers a pretty clever way of running those emails agains genuine messages the app has sent to you.
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is often your best bet when you want to browse the internet privately. Not only do most VPNs offer end-to-end encryption for secure data transmission, but they will also cloak your true location from prying eyes.
Many VPN services work in the same way, but Guardian Firewall by Sudo Security Group is a completely different type of VPN that aims to clamp down on user privacy even further by filtering outgoing data transmissions that could potentially expose personal information about you.
iOS 13 has been available to the public since September 19. And just today, Apple released its first major update, bumping up the version number to iOS 13.1.
The first round of iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max pre-orders started delivering to antsy customers late this week, with the bulk of those arriving today (Friday, 20th). While most people will use their shiny new device as it comes, a smaller percentage are actively anticipating the idea of jailbreaking it. Fortuitously, such an idea might not be too far out of reach.
Renowned security researcher @iBSparkes purportedly succeeded in deploying a tfp0 exploit on his brand-new A13-equipped handset. The hacker shared his experience via Twitter early this morning:
Apple made a lot of changes and upgrades in iOS 13, including efforts to keep iOS users more secure. That means changes to Bluetooth, and now requiring app developers to actually request access to the feature.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve undoubtedly witnessed the staggered inclusion of support for iOS 12.4 in the Electra Team’s Chimera jailbreak tool and Pwn20wnd’s unc0ver jailbreak tweak over the course of the past month. This feat was made possible with a revised version of the Sock Puppet exploit dubbed Sock Puppet 3 by security researcher Umang Raghuvanshi (@umanghere).
From what we can gather, today (Sunday, September 8th) is Raghuvanshi’s Birthday, and the lad has opted to celebrate his special day by open sourcing the Sock Puppet 3 exploit to the general public, a move that he hopes will contribute to even more great works in the community:
Apple on Friday issued a statement in regards to a report from Google's Project Zero on iOS security that popped up last week. The message accuses the team of security analysts of "stoking fear among all iPhone users" and reassures customers that "iOS security is unmatched." We've got the full note below.
While Apple typically touts user security as one of the major tentpoles of its company, it's certainly not the only one out there. Private messaging apps are popular enough on iOS, but some developers working on those apps are concerned changes in iOS 13 could have a negative impact on their goals.
Facebook has not had the greatest track record when it comes to user security recently, and while news has quieted down recently of transgressions, it looks like the trend has fired back up.
After an iOS update with a Siri grading opt-in drops, Apple will continue reviewing computer-generated transcriptions of your Siri audio requests regardless of your opt-in status.
Apple today detailed how it's going to improve privacy protection for customers who use its Siri personal assistant after the company suspended the controversial Siri grading initiative and promised to build a dedicated opt-in switch into a future iOS software update.