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App Stores OK’ed VPNs Run by China PLA

Bad Apple: Chinese firm banned by the U.S. is the shady entity behind a clutch of free VPN apps—with over a million downloads ...

Security Boulevard

Apple to Allow Third-Party App Stores, Lensa AI App Privacy Risks, Real-Life Invisibility Cloak

Tom Eston | December 19, 2022 | AI, App Store, Apple, china, Chineese, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, eu, Information Security, Infosec, Invisibility Cloak, Lensa, Podcast, Privacy, Privacy Policy, Privacy Risk, security, surveillance, technology, Terms of Service, Weekly Edition, Wuhan University

Apple is considering giving third-party app stores access to its iPhones and iPads in the European Union (EU) to comply with new competition law. Will the “sideloading” of apps change Apple’s walled ...

The Shared Security Show

Top 3 Location Tracking Apps: Do They Sell Your Data?

Tom Eston | March 21, 2022 | App Store, apps, Cybersecurity, Data Brokers, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Fake Vouchers, Google Play, Information Security, Infosec, location tracking, Podcast, Privacy, Scams, security, Snopes, , technology, Vouchers, Weekly Edition

This week we discuss the top 3 location tracking apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play and which ones sell your data. Plus, details about recent fake Chick-fil-A and Olive ...

The Shared Security Show

Apple Says iPhone Users are Stupid

Richi Jennings | October 14, 2021 | antitrust violation, App Store, Apple, SB Blogwatch, sideloading, You purchase an iPhone but you do not own it

Apple wants lawmakers to know that sideloading apps is dangerous, and that its droolingly dim customers can’t be trusted ...

Security Boulevard

Is Apple’s App Store ‘Teeming’ with Scams?

Richi Jennings | June 7, 2021 | App Store, Apple, Jeff and Tim—sitting in a tree—K.I.S.S.I.N.G., SB Blogwatch, Scams

Roughly 2% of the top-grossing apps in Apple’s store are, in some way, “scams,” claims the Daily Bezos ...

Security Boulevard

Apple Fiddles While App Store Burns: $1M Bitcoin Scam FAIL

Richi Jennings | April 5, 2021 | App Store, Apple, Bitcoin, bitcoin wallet, Cryptocrurrency, SB Blogwatch

Phillipe Christodoulou got ripped off to the tune of over a million dollars: An iPhone app stole 17.1 bitcoins ...

Security Boulevard

Apple’s Big Brother Attitude Fails to Keep Users Safe

Richi Jennings | September 1, 2020 | adware, App Store, Apple, SB Blogwatch, Shlayer

Apple’s insistence on “notarizing” apps fails to “give users more confidence,” as Cook’s crew promised ...

Security Boulevard

BlackRock Malware Goes After Banking, Social and Other Mobile Apps

Silviu STAHIE | July 16, 2020 | android, App Store, banking malware, Industry News, security, , trojan

A new banking malware is pushed on Android devices, and it’s using source code from the older, now defunct, Xerxes, and an even older variant called LokiBot. The attackers target apps that ...

HOTforSecurity

Google Removes 600 Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Silviu STAHIE | February 21, 2020 | admob, Advertising, android, App Store, google, google ad manager, Google Play, Google Play Store, Industry News, Play Store

Google has removed more than 600 apps from the Play Store and banned them from the Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager advertising platforms for violating policies on disruptive ads. The massive ...

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Introducing iVerify, the security toolkit for iPhone users

Ryan Stortz | November 14, 2019 | app, App Store, Apple, education, Exploits, Guides, ios, iVerify, jailbreak, Press Release, Privacy

“If privacy matters, it should matter to the phone your life is on.” So says Apple in their recent ads about Privacy on the iPhone and controlling the data you share—but many ...

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