a comprehensive beginner’s guide to privacy and anonymity
Alright boys and girls, settle down. It’s time to put your tin foil hats on. Before we go further, this is not a guide on how to protect yourself against government surveillance ( although it helps ). This is more of a guide on how to protect yourself against corporate surveillance.
It’s pretty long so let’s get started…
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it’s no secret that the cameras on our computers, smartphones and tablets can spy on us. The thing is, 99.9% of the time, we grant that access.
Look, it’s no secret that the cameras on our computers, smartphones and tablets can spy on us. The thing is, 99.9% of the time, we grant that access.
What Could a Hacker Actually Get from Your iPhone?
We hear about hackers often on the news and see them in movies and TV nearly every day, but what we see in the media is a misrepresentation of the truth.
Hackers do go after huge organizations, yes, but the far more common target is someone just like yourself and the device you carry. To hackers, your iPhone is far more valuable than your wallet and far more useful in the long term.
Unfortunately, despite Apple’s best efforts, your iPhone’s safety cannot be guaranteed without your effort and caution. Yet what makes a hack so dangerous for you? What could a hacker do with the information on your iPhone? What exactly can you do to protect yourself?
Let’s answer those questions by reviewing the most important information on your iPhone.
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FireEye mobile security researchers found approaches to bypass Apple’s app review process effectively and exploit non-jailbroken iOS 7 successfully.
Background monitoring mobile applications has become a hot topic on mobile devices. Existing reports show that such monitoring can be conducted on jailbroken iOS devices. FireEye mobile security researchers have discovered such vulnerability, and found approaches to bypass Apple’s app review process effectively and exploit non-jailbroken iOS 7 successfully. We have been collaborating with Apple on this issue.
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Mobile devices have gone from a novelty option to being a huge part of our everyday lives. Less like phones and more like computers, we now use our smartphones and tablets for everything from gaming and surfing the net, to work & money management. No matter what we use our mobile devices for, the question we should all ask ourselves is – How secure are they?
Security app for iOS devices? Maybe useful for over concerned users about mobile security but, in reality there’s actually no threats for iOS devices ( except phishing ). If you have a jailbroken device, you should take a few extra steps to increase security but, we’ll cover that in this post too.
Stefan Esser, a security consultant and application developer for SektionEins, has found a way to support Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) in iOS, and has developed a new jailbreak tool – to be called antid0te – to implement it, making iPhones much more resistant to malware attacks.
A German security analyst is about to unveil a new jailbreaking process that will make iPhones much more secure. Stefan Esser, a security consultant and application developer for SektionEins, has found a way to support Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) in iOS, and has developed a new jailbreak tool – to be called antid0te – to implement it, making iPhones much more resistant to malware attacks. The tool will be announced at a security conference next week and should be available soon thereafter.
New day, new update in Cydia: Firewall iP. Firewall iP, the first and only Firewall for the iPhone, got an update to 1.49. The changes are all in the background, but massive.
New day, new update in Cydia: Firewall iP. Firewall iP, the first and only Firewall for the iPhone, got an update to 1.49. The changes are all in the background, but massive. It improves stability, memory usage and speed:
A while ago we wrote about how can you password protect your iPhone apps with Lockdown. But as you might know, the iPhone has it’s own password protection system. You can set a 4 digit password, and everytime you want to wake the iPhone, on your lockscreen you need to insert the 4 digit password first.
A while ago we wrote about how can you password protect your iPhone apps with Lockdown. But as you might know, the iPhone has it’s own password protection system. You can set a 4 digit password, and everytime you want to wake the iPhone, on your lockscreen you need to insert the 4 digit password first.
Before we go into details with the alpha numeric passwords, i would like make sure you understand some things and you’ll take action on preventing them from happening.
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Since iPhone firmware was released, FSMdotCOM reported a couple of bugs ( read here and here ), and today is time to tell you about another security bug in iPhone firmware 3.o.
Since iPhone firmware was released, FSMdotCOM reported a couple of bugs ( read here and here ), and today is time to tell you about another security bug in iPhone firmware 3.o.
Apple (finally) introduced cut copy and paste in the iPhone OS 3.0 and they also implemented a nice feature: shake to undo. The only thing is that you can also “shake to read passwords” . All you need to do is to delete a digit and then shake to undo and you will be able to read the letter or number. It works with all the digits in a password except the first one.
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