Apple has released iOS 9.3.5 update for iPhones and iPads to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities after a piece of spyware found targeting the iPhone used by a renowned UAE human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor.
One of the world’s most invasive software weapon distributors, called the NSO Group, has been exploiting three zero-day security vulnerabilities in order to spy on dissidents and
Going offline in the summer is a thing of the distant past – your devices like smartphones or laptops are with you and you’re using them a lot! With a full VPN coverage insecure WiFi connections and geo-restricted content are a thing of the past now, too.
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Do you know what happens with your data when you install and use apps granting them access to more or less all data stored on your phone?
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Replays are just not acceptable sports coverage, call in the VPN for live action.
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Last week, Apple finally announced a bug bounty program for researchers and white hat hackers to find and get paid for reporting details of zero-day vulnerabilities in its software and devices.
The company offers the biggest payout of $200,000, which is 10 times the maximum reward that Google offers and double the highest bounty paid by Microsoft.
But now Apple is going to face competition
Avira Antivirus for Mac – and its development team – got great marks in the latest Mac Security Test & Review from AV Comparatives for its malware stopping ability, easy usability, and fast response to user suggestions.
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We are happy to finally announce Mac Antivirus Pro, the premium version of our free AV security software for Apple OS X devices.
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Here’s something you’ll not like at all:
Apple has been awarded a patent for technology that would prevent you from snapping pictures and shooting videos with your iPhone or iPad at places or events, like concerts or museums, where it might be prohibited or inappropriate.
The patent, granted on Tuesday by the United States Patents and Trademark Office, is highly technical.
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China has long been known for its strict censorship which makes it difficult for foreign technology companies to do business in the world’s most populous country of over 1.35 billion people.
Now, the new law issued by the Chinese government will expand its strict Internet monitoring efforts into mobile apps, targeting operators including Apple. However, Google currently doesn’t operate its
Besides the exciting developments Apple presented at its annual WWDC event in San Francisco, there were also some security related announcements that should not go unnoticed.
The Apple brand talked about a new concept that they are beginning to use in all of their services that they say is the future of how users manage personal information on their platforms: they call it differential privacy.
You may think of Apple as a privacy defender; they are known to favor encryption and implement different measures in order to protect the personal data of their users. But in the age of “big data”, tech companies like Apple are also seeking as many personal details as possible about their users. Like any business, the tech company run by Tim Cook needs to know everything about their customers, both current and future.
How can the tech company seek personal data, while at the same, keep it private? It’s a privacy vs. government race (especially in the United States). Luckily for Apple users, in the realm of user privacy, this multinational giant is in the lead.
Apple has come up with something they call differential privacy. In other words, they extract conclusions about users and groups (or subgroups), while at the same time, ensuring that the information belonging to each one of those individuals is totally private.
Differential privacy lets you gain insights from large datasets, but with a mathematical proof that no one can learn about a single individual
“Differential privacy lets you gain insights from large datasets, but with a mathematical proof that no one can learn about a single individual,” explained Aaron Roth, a profesor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, who “[wrote] the book” on differential privacy, according to Apple’s Craig Federighi.
This does not anonymize data like many other internet services, which has proven to fail in many occasions. In 2007, for example, a group of investigators demonstrated how they were able to de-anonymize the “anonymous” data published on Netflix.
On the contrary, with their new focus Apple will not pass information from its devices to its servers until the data passes through a transformation process where it will go through various techniques like cryptographic and flow noise functions to ensure that it is mathematically impossible to associate your data with your identity.
They are not the only technology giant that is adopting differential privacy to protect their users’ personal information: other big businesses share this new idea including Google, and Microsoft, whose team of experts even includes some of the concept’s founders.
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