NSA recommends rebooting a phone every week to stop hacking
As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security staff this year, he said he got…
How to enable and disable iCloud Private Relay in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey
iCloud Private Relay is a new privacy feature baked into iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey that's designed to hide your browsing habits inside Safari. Here's how you can…
Apple Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Their iPhones
In a new editorial published by The Washington Post, a pair of researchers who spent two years developing a CSAM (child sexual abuse material) detection system similar to the one…
Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship Around the World
Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted messages. The program, initially limited to the…
Apple Will Scan U.S. iPhones For Images Of Child Sexual Abuse
The tool designed to detect known images of child sexual abuse, called "neuralMatch," will scan images before they are uploaded to iCloud. If it finds a match, the image will…
Speculation that yesterday’s iOS security fix was for NSO exploit
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited. Description: A memory…
iPhones running latest iOS hacked to deploy NSO Group spyware
Human rights non-governmental organization Amnesty International and non-profit project Forbidden Stories revealed in a recent report that they found spyware made by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group deployed on iPhones…
Metadata: the hidden fingerprint inside your photos
When you take a photo, your smartphone or digital camera stores "metadata" within the image file. This automatically and parasitically burrows itself into every photo you take. It is data…
Tim Cook: Privacy and climate change are ‘the top issues of the century’
If you care about privacy—and you should—Cook’s frank speech is worth a watch. He elaborated on his thoughts when I interviewed him moments afterward. Our talk was not the typical…
What’s up with the Apple App Store’s privacy changes?
Apple privacy changes have been delayed in the past allow more time for other companies to adjust. Apple privacy ads seem to have been delayed as well, perhaps due to…
