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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made its first disclosure about a software security flaw to Apple under the Vulnerability Equities Process (VEP), a White House initiative created in April 2014 for reviewing flaws and deciding which ones should be made public.
Unfortunately, the vulnerability reported by the federal agency only affected older versions of Apple’s iOS and OS
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Apple’s head of legal has denied all rumors about providing its complete source code or any backdoor to the Chinese government.
Apple officially confirmed that the Chinese government has asked Apple twice in the past two years to hand over the source code for its operating system, but the company refused in both the cases.
In a Tuesday hearing entitled “Deciphering the Debate Over
Apple and the FBI vow to work together to find compromise solution in encryption debate.
The Zero Day Initiative has publicly disclosed a pair of serious vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime for Windows that will not be patched because Apple is deprecating the product.
The FBI didn’t disclose the identity of the third-party company that helped them access the San Bernardino iPhone, but it has been widely believed that the Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite was hired by the FBI to put an end to the Apple vs. FBI case.
For those unfamiliar in the Apple vs. FBI case: Apple was engaged in a legal battle with the Department of Justice over a court order
Almost two years back, Apple introduced Swift programming language at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) to the developers who build software applications for Apple devices.
Swift was designed to make it easier for developers to create apps for Apple’s mobile platform. Usually developers write complete app code and then compile it to see output, but Swift helps them see results in
Apple patched an OS X vulnerability in a kernel driver that could give attackers root-level privileges on a Mac computer, researchers at Cisco Talos said.
Apple deployed patches for nearly all of its products, including Safari, OS X, iOS, Apple TV’s tvOS, and watchOS on Monday.
Johns Hopkins University researchers disclosed crypto vulnerabilities in iOS that put iMessage security at risk to advanced attackers.
Hackers took down Apple Safari and Adobe Flash earning $282,500 in prizes on Wednesday, the first day of the annual Pwn2Own hacking challenge in Vancouver.