Wen bezahlte das FBI für die Entschlüsselung des iPhone 5c, das den San-Bernardino-Terroristen gehörte? Die Washington Post lüftet ein fünf Jahre altes Geheimnis. The iPhone used by a terrorist in the San Bernardino shooting was unlocked by a small Australian hacking firm in 2016, ending a momentous standoff between the U.S. government and the techweiterlesen

Glenn Fleishman sprach mit Will Strafach – diesem Will Strafach – über sein iOS-Firewall-Startup. Windows and Mac users can install firewalls and anti-malware software that, in addition to handling more nefarious stuff, also block apps and traffic known to siphon user data off for unwanted purposes. Browser plug-ins such as Ghostery, 1Blocker, and many others canweiterlesen

Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android “Facebook Research” app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page. The program is administered through beta testing services Applause, BetaBound and uTestweiterlesen

Thursday, the city of Los Angeles sued The Weather Channel for its alleged inappropriate use of location data—the lawsuit claims that the Weather Channel “takes advantage of its app’s widespread popularity by using it as an intrusive tool to mine users’ private geolocation data, which the Weather Channel then sends to IBM affiliates and otherweiterlesen

Nachdem die Facebook-App unter dem Menüpunkt „Protect“ seine Schnüffler-Software „Onavo VPN Security“ verlinkt, hat sich der Sicherheitsforscher Will Strafach die Datenpakete angeschaut (soweit das möglich ist). I found that Onavo Protect uses a Packet Tunnel Provider app extension, which should consistently run for as long as the VPN is connected, in order to periodically sendweiterlesen

The “jailbreak” and the “non-jailbreak” variants of the most up to date HackingTeam iOS spyware appear to require physical device access. The “non-jailbroken” HackingTeam spyware is not difficult to detect if installed on a device, in its current state. […] The bigger concern for jailbreak users is installing untrusted packages, which could do more nefariousweiterlesen

The open aggression between the different factions has concerned some. Money, it seems, has turned jailbreaking from a hobbyist affair concerned with free and open software, into a hostile game where vast sums are up for grabs. As former NSA staffer and head of research at Synack Patrick Wardle tells FORBES, he has more trustweiterlesen