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Tag: hacking

Apple notifies iPhone users in 100 countries of spyware attacks

Friday, May 2, 2025 11:00 am3 Comments

Apple notified multiple iPhone users this week, informing them they may have been targeted by government spyware, as reported by…

India opposition leader Gandhi accuses government of trying to hack lawmakers’ iPhones

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 10:20 amTuesday, October 31, 2023No Comments

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of trying to hack into senior opposition…

Apple AirTag hacked and reprogrammed by security researcher

Monday, May 10, 2021 12:24 pm2 Comments

A security researcher has found that Apple’s AirTag can be hacked and its software reprogrammed to modify specific functions of the device…

Alleged hacker threatened to sell details of 319 million Apple iCloud users, demanded more than £133,000 in Bitcoin

Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:30 pmThursday, October 18, 20182 Comments

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

Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:57 am2 Comments

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

Thursday, September 20, 2018 5:32 pmThursday, September 20, 2018No Comments

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

Friday, August 17, 2018 8:28 amNo Comments

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

Thursday, August 16, 2018 10:13 am10 Comments

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

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, August 14, 201816 Comments

Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…

Researchers demonstrate macOS and Safari exploits at Pwn2Own 2018

Thursday, March 15, 2018 10:27 amThursday, March 15, 20182 Comments

The eighteenth annual CanSecWest security conference is underway in downtown…

President Trump signs law banning Russian Kaspersky Labs software from U.S. government agencies

Monday, December 18, 2017 11:25 amMonday, December 18, 201713 Comments

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

Friday, September 15, 2017 10:58 amFriday, September 15, 201710 Comments

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

Friday, August 25, 2017 1:28 pmFriday, August 25, 201715 Comments

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

Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:44 pmThursday, July 20, 201711 Comments

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

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:17 pm10 Comments

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’

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:33 pmTuesday, July 18, 201732 Comments

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

Thursday, June 29, 2017 4:42 pm54 Comments

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’

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:38 pm10 Comments

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

Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:34 am26 Comments

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

Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:01 pm7 Comments

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

Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:46 am11 Comments

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

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:35 pm8 Comments

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

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:56 amWednesday, March 8, 201729 Comments

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

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:11 amTuesday, March 7, 201741 Comments

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

Monday, October 10, 2016 9:24 amMonday, October 10, 20169 Comments

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

Friday, August 12, 2016 1:27 pmFriday, August 12, 201629 Comments

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

Friday, June 3, 2016 2:58 pmFriday, June 3, 201614 Comments

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%

Friday, May 13, 2016 10:57 amFriday, May 13, 20166 Comments

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

Friday, May 6, 2016 10:27 amFriday, May 6, 201613 Comments

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

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 8:35 am11 Comments

The Los Angeles Unified School District has reached a tentative $6.4-million settlement…

What schools must learn from Los Angeles’ iPad fiasco

Friday, May 8, 2015 11:59 amFriday, May 8, 201522 Comments

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

Friday, April 17, 2015 10:55 amFriday, April 17, 201515 Comments

The federal Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened…

Los Angeles schools seeking refund over botched iPad plan

Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:30 am34 Comments

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

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 3:55 pmTuesday, December 2, 201441 Comments

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

Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:26 pmThursday, September 18, 201418 Comments

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

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:58 pmTuesday, August 26, 201424 Comments

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

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:02 am19 Comments

Los Angeles teachers union president Alex Caputo-Pearl on Monday…

L.A. Unified School District suspends Apple iPad contract

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 8:56 amTuesday, August 26, 201427 Comments

L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy suspended future use of a contract with Apple…

Celebrity iPad hacker wants indictment tossed after prison release

Monday, April 14, 2014 4:29 pmMonday, April 14, 20144 Comments

Andrew Auernheimer, known online as ‘weev,’ partied with journalists…

U.S. federal appeals court throws out celebrity iPad hacker’s conviction

Friday, April 11, 2014 5:01 pmFriday, April 11, 20147 Comments

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

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 3:00 pmTuesday, October 1, 201333 Comments

Los Angeles school officials have taken back iPads from students…

Apple warns against iOS jailbreaking following evasi0n hack

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:36 am29 Comments

Apple has tweaked an online article about the dangers of jailbreaking…

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