Even though Apple has been embroiled in court cases with the Department of Justice lately, the company is not prioritizing that threat yet, and rather they aim to counter a different one when they introduce new security functions for iOS devices. Apple security engineers feel that the government’s intrusion into …
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The Justice Department has withdrawn its case against Apple. The Department told a federal court that they had been able to unlock the iPhone without Apple’s help, therefore, there was no need for the case anymore. In a statement, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department said, “The FBI has now …
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Research done by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has found a bug that enables hackers to see photos and videos sent via Apple’s messaging service iMessage. Last fall, an exploit of a similar nature, which affected versions of iMessage before iOS 9 was found and immediately solved by Apple. It …
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A judicial ruling on Feb 24 longstanding fears that the FBI have used the information they obtained through a subpoena from a university research team working on Tor security vulnerabilities to take down a series of websites used for criminal activities. The ruling in the case of Brian Farrell, who …
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The court tasked with investigating privacy infringements ruled on February 12th that it is legal for UK government agencies to hack electronic devices such as computers and phones, both within the UK and abroad. During the hearing at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a UK intelligence …
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Hackers are supposedly luring Apple employees with rewards of thousands of euros to leak the personal login details from within the company, said a few sources who are a part of the company in Ireland. In a recent interview to Business Insider, an employee (who has been kept anonymous for …
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