If you own an iPhone and it’s jailbroken you might want to be extra careful when it comes to where you download your apps or the KeyRaider malware might get you. Or your credentials for that matter.
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What if you wanted to terminate a malicious app but it would continue to run and run and run and run?
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Don’t be cyber-flashed by a pervert. Make sure that your iOS device’s AirDrop settings are configured properly to protect your eyes from unpleasantness.
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Cisco is warning enterprise customers about a spike in attacks in which hackers use valid credentials on IOS devices to log in as administrators and then upload malicious ROMMON images to take control of the devices. The ROM Monitor is the program that initializes the hardware and software on IOS devices, and an attacker who […]
iScam displays a “crash report” to affected users. (Photo via Daily Mail)
It’s a common belief (and myth) that Apple products are invincible against malware. This false line of thinking has recently again been refuted, as iPhone and iPad users have been encountering a ransomware threat that freezes their Internet browsers, rendering their devices unusable. The ploy, commonly known as iScam, urges victims to call a number and pay $80 as a ransom to fix their device. When users visit an infected page while browsing using the Safari application, a message is displayed saying that the device’s iOS has crashed “due to a third party application” in their phone. The users are then directed to contact customer support to fix the issue.
How to clean your system if you’ve been infected by iScam
Check out Apple’s support forum for additional tips on how to keep your device safe while using Safari.
With over 3 million smartphones stolen annually in the USA, and more than 300 each day on the streets of London, smartphone theft is sadly now an everyday occurrence.
These days, losing a smartphone means costs us so much more than the device itself. Our personal information, messages, emails, contacts and social networking profiles are all at stake. When you add banking and shopping apps, the financial costs can also escalate.
One of the most effective defenses against stealing and misusing your device and data is a killswitch functionality with reports suggesting killswitches can halve the number of smartphone thefts. It is so effective, that starting on July 1 2015, the state of California has ruled that all new smartphones must be shipped with killswitch functionality.
Once activated, a killswitch prevents a smartphone from being used or reprogrammed through a factory reset, making it very difficult for phone thieves to sell-on a working device.
The good news is that both Google and Apple rolled integrated killswitches for their smartphones in 2014, meaning that most smartphone users have access to basic level of protection.
Working with Qualcomm, AVG is developing a much more robust solution that is integrated directly into the hardware making it resistant to any number of attacks including factory resets or a SIM swap.
Step One: Set up remote access
Step Two:
If your device is lost or stolen, go to any web enable device, log into Google and access the Android Device Manager Panel.
You will now see your device location on a map and have options to ring, lock and erase.
Step One: Enable Find My iPhone
Step Two: Enabling Lost Mode
If you believe your device is lost or stolen you can activate the killswitch known as “Lost Mode”.
To do this, go to icloud.com/find from a Mac or PC, or alternatively you can use the Find My iPhone iOS app from another device.
This will bring up the Lost Mode dashboard which should pinpoint where your device is on a map and also give you the option to make it ring, lock it down or erase the data.
There is an option to customise the lock with a contact number for the safe return of your device. If you retrieve the device, you can safely return it to normal using your Apple ID login.
More than 36 hours after the huge cache of data from Hacking Team’s corporate network was dumped online, researchers are continuing to find surprising bits and pieces in the documents. Among them is evidence that the company had an enterprise developer certificate from Apple, allowing it to develop internal apps, but could not get its […]
Apple has released new versions of iOS and OS X, both of which include a significant number of security patches, several for bugs that can lead to remote code execution and other serious issues. Version 8.4 of iOS contains fixes for more than 30 security vulnerabilities, including bugs in the iOS kernel, WebKit, and CoreText. […]
Apple will reportedly introduce a new privacy update for the iPhone that will prevent installed iOS apps from seeing which other apps have been downloaded to the device.
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off June 8 at San Francisco’s Moscone West.
Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, where mobile developers from far and wide came together to learn about the future of iOS and OS X systems. Along with being the first time I was able to participate in this sought-after conference, it was also my first time visiting San Francisco.
Once you get past its glitz and the glamour, the majority of the event revolves around waiting in a series of queues — the day before the actual event began, the line for the event’s keynote lectures had formed around an entire city block. Although I wasn’t one of the first people to camp out there, I did arrive around 5:30 a.m. on Monday to stake out my spot. While the masses of people at WWDC can be a bit overwhelming, there really isn’t a better place to meet thousands of like-minded developers with whom one can strike up an interesting conversation discussing the ins and outs of of iOS development.
This year, Apple hosted 5,000 developers from 70 different countries, the vast majority of whom were present at WWDC for the first time. The WWDC Scholarship Program awarded 350 scholarships to recipients, the youngest of whom was Kiera Cawley, a 12-year-old app developer who has been coding since the age of nine. Apple CEO Tim Cook made a guest appearance at the conference’s special orientation session, mingling with the recipients and even taking selfies with some of them.
WWDC 2015
OS X EL CAPITAN — what a name! At first, I thought it had to be another joke from Craig Federighi, but I was wrong. A noteworthy new feature in El Capitan is the split view mode, which allows us to work on two apps simultaneously. Apple claims that there has been a 1.4x time increase in app launch times and 2x improvement in app switching speeds. In general, Apple has been quite busy and has made huge improvements for developers. The most exciting news is that Apple will be making Swift open source later this year — a big step forward for the developer community.
The recent release of iOS 9 makes the entire system smarter and more secure. Now, users can run two apps at once on an iPad, side by side in split view (the same feature present in OS X). This will be challenging for developers who still don’t prefer Auto Layout. For the rest of us, though, it works quite well. It’s also possible to make activities and documents within your app searchable using Spotlight or to include special links on your site that launch your app at a specific view. And yes, it’s still necessary to support iPhone 4s on iOS 9. However, it should be more optimized now more than ever before.
Jennifer Bailey announced release of Apple Pay in the UK next month. This was a bad piece of news for the developer sitting right next to me. He was working as a freelancer for a company that provides mobile payments in the UK via iOS. “My company is screwed and I should start looking for a new job,” he said in response to Bailey’s announcement. Apple Pay’s imminent launch is, unfortunately, not the best update for people whose jobs revolve around mobile payments.
During the rest of the week, Apple featured 100 sessions and labs, and over 1000 Apple engineers were present and ready to give me advice. UI Design Lab was the most popular workshop at the conference, and you could count on the fact that there’d be a huge line every day. After trying to get into the session every morning, I was finally able to make an appointment on Friday. In the end, it was worth the wait. 
All in all, WWDC was a great opportunity to meet an impressive collection of talented developers and to discuss the vast amount of progress Apple has been making within the mobile sphere. See you next year, Apple!
