A security researcher has found that Apple’s AirTag can be hacked and its software reprogrammed to modify specific functions of the device…
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Alleged hacker threatened to sell details of 319 million Apple iCloud users, demanded more than £133,000 in Bitcoin
An alleged hacker threatened to sell the personal details of 319 million Apple iCloud users…
Australian teen Apple hacker avoids jail time, sentenced to eight months’ probation
The Australian teenage hacker who pleaded guilty to repeatedly accessing Apple’s mainframe over two years…
Australian teen who hacked Apple to face sentencing next week
An Australian teenager who pleaded guilty to hacking Apple Inc. systems carried out…
Apple reassures customers after hack by Australian teen, says no customer data was compromised
Apple Inc said on Friday no customer data was compromised after Australian media reported a teenager had pleaded guilty to hacking…
Melbourne teen who hacked into Apple’s secure computer network and 90GB of files faces criminal charges
A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple’s secure computer systems…
Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs
Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…
Researchers demonstrate macOS and Safari exploits at Pwn2Own 2018
The eighteenth annual CanSecWest security conference is underway in downtown…
President Trump signs law banning Russian Kaspersky Labs software from U.S. government agencies
President Trump has signed into law an order banning the use of Kaspersky Lab products…
Trump administration orders purge of Kaspersky products from U.S. government
The Trump administration on Wednesday told U.S. government agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products…
The FBI wants U.S. companies to stop using Kaspersky software
The FBI has admitted that it is actively discouraging businesses to not use security products from Kaspersky Lab…
iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments
Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…
Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws
Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…
Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’
Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…
U.S. Senators seek military ban on Kaspersky Lab products amid FBI probe
U.S. senators sought on Wednesday to ban Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab…
WikiLeaks to give Apple, Google, others 90-day deadline to fix flaws revealed in ‘Vault 7’
WikiLeaks promise to give tech companies access to exploits in their systems before being made public…
What WikiLeaks’ CIA data dump tells us: Encryption works
If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures…
Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies
WikiLeaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools…
Apple working to close remaining CIA exploits exposed by WikiLeaks, but difficulties remain
Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, mobile phones belonging to executives on Apple…
WikiLeaks raises prospect of teaming with tech giants, including Apple, to thwart CIA hacker-spies
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details…
Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched
Wikileaks today published a trove of documents, allegedly taken from the CIA..
WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s global covert hacking program targeting Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…
Apple Watches banned from UK Cabinet over Russian hacking fears
Ministers have been barred from wearing Apple Watches during Cabinet meetings amid concerns…
Hackers can now steal data by listening to the sound of a hard drive
Do you think your data is safe because your computer isn’t connected to the internet or a network?
iPhone and iPad users: The end is nigh for iOS jailbreaking
The last iOS jailbreak to be made public was for iOS 9.1…
Apple iPad helps lift school district’s graduation rate to 82% from 65%
H.L. Suverkrup Elementary, in Yuma, Ariz., is part of an innovative effort by Apple to use technology to help level…
Massive email hack hits millions
Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded…
L.A. Unified to get $6.4 million in settlement over iPad software
The Los Angeles Unified School District has reached a tentative $6.4-million settlement…
What schools must learn from Los Angeles’ iPad fiasco
When Los Angeles schools began handing out iPads in the fall of 2013…
U.S. SEC probes L.A. Unified School District’s iPad debacle
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened…
Los Angeles schools seeking refund over botched iPad plan
The country’s second-largest school district is taking another step to back away…
U.S. FBI seizes L.A. Unified School District iPad documents; 20 boxes carted away in surprise visit
FBI agents on Monday removed 20 boxes of documents from the Los Angeles Unified School District…
How L.A. Unified completely screwed up their iPad program
LA Unified district staff was so focused on distributing devices that little attention was paid…
St. Paul schools rolls out Apple iPads to nearly 40,000 students
The St. Paul School District will roll out an iPad initiative this fall…
Los Angeles teachers union calls for investigation of school super Deasy’s ties to Apple, Pearson execs
Los Angeles teachers union president Alex Caputo-Pearl on Monday…
L.A. Unified School District suspends Apple iPad contract
L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy suspended future use of a contract with Apple…
Celebrity iPad hacker wants indictment tossed after prison release
Andrew Auernheimer, known online as ‘weev,’ partied with journalists…
U.S. federal appeals court throws out celebrity iPad hacker’s conviction
A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously threw out the conviction…
L.A. Unified School District repossesses students’ iPads as $1-billion plan hits hurdles
Los Angeles school officials have taken back iPads from students…
Apple warns against iOS jailbreaking following evasi0n hack
Apple has tweaked an online article about the dangers of jailbreaking…
Jury convicts New York man over AT&T-iPad hacking
A federal jury convicted a New York man on Tuesday of hacking into AT&T Inc servers…
Confirmed: Apple-owned fingerprint software exposes Windows passwords
Security consultants have independently confirmed a serious security weakness…
