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

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

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

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

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 ...
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Apple Says iPhone Users are Stupid

Apple wants lawmakers to know that sideloading apps is dangerous, and that its droolingly dim customers can’t be trusted ...
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Is Apple’s App Store ‘Teeming’ with Scams?

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

Roughly 2% of the top-grossing apps in Apple’s store are, in some way, “scams,” claims the Daily Bezos ...
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Apple Fiddles While App Store Burns: $1M Bitcoin Scam FAIL

Phillipe Christodoulou got ripped off to the tune of over a million dollars: An iPhone app stole 17.1 bitcoins ...
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Apple’s Big Brother Attitude Fails to Keep Users Safe

Apple’s Big Brother Attitude Fails to Keep Users Safe

Apple’s insistence on “notarizing” apps fails to “give users more confidence,” as Cook’s crew promised ...
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BlackRock Malware Goes After Banking, Social and Other Mobile Apps

BlackRock Malware Goes After Banking, Social and Other Mobile Apps

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 ...
Google Removes 600 Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google Removes 600 Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

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

“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 ...
Google Play Store no longer accepts crypto-mining apps

Google Play Store no longer accepts crypto-mining apps

Taking a leaf from Apple’s rulebook regarding cryptocurrency mining, Google has updated its Play Store guidelines to keep shady financial instruments out of its Android applications venue. Over on the Google Play ...

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