Apple iOS 16.3 arrives with support for hardware security keys
Apple released iOS 16.3 today with long-awaited support for hardware security keys to provide extra protection against phishing attacks and…
Man claiming to be Iranian faces terrorism charge after allegedly lighting his car on fire inside solar plant near Las Vegas
A man disabled a large solar power plant in Las Vegas, Nevada, by setting his car on fire after breaking…
France fines Apple for targeted App Store ads without consent
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Apple €8,000,000 ($8.5M) for collecting user data for targeted advertising on the App…
Twitter, NBA make 2022 ‘Worst of the Woke’ list, Disney, BlackRock appear second year in a row
Several U.S. companies found themselves on the New Tolerance Campaign's 2022 "Worst of the Woke" list with several repeats returning…
Halting Hackers on the Holidays
by Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine As we saw with major holidays including Black Friday […] The…
T-Mobile hacker gets 10 years for $25 million phone unlock scheme
Argishti Khudaverdyan, the former owner of a T-Mobile retail store, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a $25…
Apple fixes new Webkit zero-day used in attacks against iPhones
In security updates released today, Apple has fixed the tenth zero-day vulnerability since the start of the year, with this…
Elon Musk tweets that his pronouns are ‘Prosecute/Fauci’
Twitter owner Elon Musk wrote Sunday that his pronouns were “Prosecute/Fauci” as outgoing NIAID director Anthony Fauci faces Republican investigations…
Hackers earn $989,750 for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto
Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has ended with competitors earning $989,750 for 63 zero-day exploits (and multiple bug collisions) targeting consumer products between December…
Apple rolls out end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups
Apple introduced today Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, a new feature that uses end-to-end encryption to protect sensitive iCloud data, including backups,…