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New Apple ‘Rapid’ Update is Slow, Messy FAIL
PATCH NOW! Oh, wait, you can’t: “You are no longer connected to the internet,” it sneers ...

iPhone Privacy ‘Lies’ Exposed Again: Apple Analytics not Anonymous
Apple has been caught lying in a privacy policy. So say the now-notorious security researchers at Mysk ...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 29, 2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...

VPNs Don’t Work on iOS — and Apple Doesn’t Care
“VPNs on iOS are a scam.” That’s what an angry security researcher would have you believe ...
Apple’s Lockdown Mode
I haven’t written about Apple’s Lockdown Mode yet, mostly because I haven’t delved into the details. This is how Apple describes it: Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level of security for ...

Apple Previews Lockdown Mode, Another Marriott Data Breach, Smart Contact Lenses
Apple previews Lockdown Mode which is designed for high risk individuals such as human rights workers, lawyers, politicians and journalists, hotel chain Marriott confirms another data breach, and new details on the ...

Truths and Myths of Privacy, Fake Shopping Apps, Borat RAT Malware
Scott and Tom explain why privacy isn’t dead, why should everyone should care about their privacy, and how you should respond to someone that says “I don’t care about privacy, I have ...

Google Android vs Apple iOS: Which is Better for Privacy and Cybersecurity?
This week we battle it out between the two mobile tech giants, Google Android vs Apple iOS, and discuss which one is better for your privacy and cybersecurity. Topics include: app stores ...
Faking an iPhone Reboot
Researchers have figured how how to intercept and fake an iPhone reboot: We’ll dissect the iOS system and show how it’s possible to alter a shutdown event, tricking a user that got ...

NSO Zero-Click Exploit: Turing-Complete CPU in Image File
Researchers have reverse engineered NSO group’s recent zero-click iPhone exploit. And it’s a doozy ...