Lots of movement on the Apple jobs (as in employment, not Steve) front lately, so here’s a look at the recent loss of a music exec to Thumbplay, the gain of a security chief from Mozilla (and before that Microsoft), and they’re hiring a Mobile Advertising team and an iBooks Store lead for Canada, Australia, [...]
In the wake of the latest act of terrorism attempted on a US airplane, the TSA has enacted what appear to be deliberately unpredictable new security measures that seem to include a complete ban on the use of electronics like the iPhone or iPod touch, and even the use of the bathroom for the last [...]
If you own either an iPhone or iPod touch along with a Mac computer then Airlock may just be the security OS X application you’ve been looking for. For only $7.77 you can have a very effective lock for your Mac computer with just your iPhone or iPod touch.
How does Airlock work? It’s pretty simple, [...]
Apple is currently hiring and is in search of an iPhone OS platform security manager. What does the particular job consist of? Here is the low down:
The team is responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of [...]
We’ve warned you previously about some of the security vulnerabilities that come with jailbreaking your iPhone. Turns out a Dutch hacker has gone and made a point to a countless number of jailbroken devices by using a port scanning technique along with some networking smarts. Then after he gained access to the jailbroken iPhones the [...]
The cracking of GSM “encryption” has been making the inter-rounds lately, and this week on the Security Now! Podcast, Steve Gibson takes a look at how badly it’s broken, and what the potential risks are. In simple terms, it means what you say on your iPhone — or any GSM phone, which includes all phones [...]
The Jailbreak and Unlock wizards behind the iPhone DevTeam are off to DEFCON 17, the security/hacking convention that juxtaposes Black Hat 2009, and have provided a set of tips to help those at the conferences (or anywhere really) avoid getting their iPhone hacked into. The tips are really targeted at Jailbroken iPhones, but some cross [...]
Apple has updated their MobileMe News “blog” with a helpful tip for added security, and for when that security necessitates the need for a helpful little reminder.
First up, Apple reminds everyone that even good passwords, left static for too long, grow old and stale.
One simple way to increase the security of your [...]
Wired.com talks to Jonathan Zdziarski, iPhone developer, hacker, forensics teacher, finder of the iPhone kill switch, creator of the AMBER alert app, about the iPhone 3GS‘ new hardware encryption, recently touted as giving consumers “enterprise-class” security. His take? It’s implemented so poorly it can be cracked in two minutes, “like storing all your secret messages [...]
No word yet on whether you get a pocket Hasselhoff to push it for you, but it sounds like Opera Mobile 9.7 is set to bring back the “Turbo” boost in an effort to take it to Mobile Safari (and, we presume, WebKit in general as found on the iPhone, Google Chrome lite for Android, [...]
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