Several key vulnerabilities that have been discovered recently in the Wi-Fi standard put just about every router, smartphone and computer out there at risk of having users' personal information intercepted, exposed and stolen.
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macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update fixes Keychain & APFS Disk Utility vulnerabilities
Apple on Thursday released a supplemental update to macOS High Sierra 10.13 which fixes a few bugs, among them a major vulnerability (we told you about it this morning) that could expose the passwords of encrypted Apple File System volumes in plain text in Disk Utility.
macOS High Sierra’s Disk Utility exposes passwords of encrypted APFS volumes
Brazilian developer Matheus Mariano has discovered a pretty serious security vulnerability in macOS High Sierra which exposes passwords of any encrypted APFS volumes in plain text.
Apple closes the signing window for iOS 10.3.3 and 11.0
Apple on Wednesday stopped signing both iOS 10.3.3 and iOS 11.0, the first official public release of iOS 11 since the software came out of beta on September 19th. With this change, it's now impossible to downgrade iOS 11 devices back to iOS 10.
The company regularly stops signing older firmware versions to prevent downgrades and keep users on the latest firmware possible. It’s also a measure to thwart jailbreaking, which often requires an older firmware version where Apple hasn’t patched the vulnerabilities used in the jailbreak process.
Facebook testing facial recognition for its account recovery process
Regaining access to a locked Facebook account, especially if you cannot receive two-factor authentication SMS because you're traveling abroad, could soon become a lot easier with news that Facebook is testing facial recognition for its account recovery process.
Everything we know about how Face ID works and protects your facial data
Apple has said it will share more information on how the new facial recognition system debuting on iPhone X works, and now they've made good on that promise.
macOS High Sierra 10.13 release notes
macOS High Sierra 10.13 was released in September 2017 with new features and under-the-hood enhancements that make your Mac faster and more reliable while laying the foundation for future macOS innovation.
macOS High Sierra checks your Mac’s firmware weekly for tampering
macOS High Sierra, scheduled to make its public debut later today, includes a little known cool new security feature that runs a weekly check of your Mac's firmware integrity, helping protect the computer from sophisticated malware attacks.
Face ID overview: setting up, how it works, security, privacy, spoofing & more
Ten years after kickstarting the mobile revolution with the original iPhone and four years since mainstreaming mobile fingerprint sensors with Touch ID, Apple has now begun to supplant fingerprint biometrics on mobile with facial recognition based on depth perception.
Give the Photos app the features it needs with PhotoManager
Compared to other operating systems, iOS' Photos app has always left a lot to be desired. Fortunately, a new jailbreak tweak called PhotoManager by iOS developer Frozen Penguin can fill in the blanks with the features you’ve always wanted in your stock photo app.
Compared to some tweaks, which just add one extra bell or whistle here and there, PhotoManager introduces a plethora of genuinely useful features that you’ll actually use. For that reason, I found it very exciting to delve into what the tweak has to offer, and I think you'll feel the same way once you see it for yourself.
Apple’s developer site was not hacked
Contrary to some previous reports that suggested Wednesday that the Apple Developer website had been hacked, Apple said in a statement to The Loop on Thursday that there was no security breach and that the issue was caused by a bug.
Video: Note 8 facial recognition possibly beaten by a selfie
Galaxy S8's face scanner via the front-facing camera can be easily tricked by scanning a user’s photograph and now we learn that Note 8's facial recognition system is no better.