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A professional hacker reveals how to create the best possible password

Friday, July 26, 2019 3:03 pmFriday, July 26, 201920 Comments

Creating a strong, easy-to-remember password that is nonetheless difficult to guess can be quite the trick…

How to protect your Apple iCloud account from hackers

Friday, March 24, 2017 4:09 pm3 Comments

There’s more than enough reason to exercise caution…

How to protect your iCloud account, as some hacked credentials confirmed valid

Friday, March 24, 2017 10:16 am1 Comment

While the available evidence suggests that hackers have not gained direct access to more than 600 million…

Apple: ‘Turkish Crime Family’ hackers did not breach iCloud, usernames and passwords likely obtained from compromised third-parties

Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:55 amThursday, March 23, 20172 Comments

Apple is reassuring customers that its systems have not been breached while a hacker, or hackers…

Hackers threaten to wipe millions of iPhones and iCloud accounts if Apple doesn’t pay up by April 7th

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:29 amWednesday, March 22, 201736 Comments

A hacker or group of hackers is apparently trying to extort Apple over alleged access to a large cache of iCloud…

MacRumors hacker who took 860,000 passwords: ‘We’re not terrorists’

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 5:01 pmWednesday, November 13, 201321 Comments

The group that hacked MacRumors‘ forums and made off with password data for more than 860,000 users…

French hacker admits stealing 500,000 euros from Android smartphone users

Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:35 pmThursday, October 18, 201235 Comments

A 20-year-old hacker has been arrested in northern France for spreading a virus via Android apps…

Apple IDs posted by hacker group stolen from Florida company, not FBI

Monday, September 10, 2012 3:43 pmMonday, September 10, 201212 Comments

A little-known tech company claimed it, and not the FBI, was hacked and mined for one million now-stolen Apple IDs…

Researcher takes complete control of Android and Nokia phones by merely waving another device near them

Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:15 am31 Comments

Allows an artful hacker pickpocket Android or Nokia settlers’ private information right through their clothes…

Russian hacker strikes again with new ‘In-App Purchase’ exploit; ‘free’ Mac apps on OS X

Sunday, July 22, 2012 6:41 pm31 Comments

Alexei Borodin, the same hacker who came up with the recent in-app purchase exploit…

Apple now including unique identifiers to combat In-App Purchase hack

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:32 pmWednesday, July 18, 20125 Comments

Following last week’s launch of a hack that allowed users to obtain…

Apple attempts to take down servers related to In-App Purchase hack

Monday, July 16, 2012 1:09 pm6 Comments

Apple has a takedown request on the original server, taking down third-party authentication with it…

Hacker gets Siri to work with a radio thermostat

Monday, November 21, 2011 11:44 amMonday, November 21, 201111 Comments

A hacker has altered Apple’s voice-activated personal assistant Siri…

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