Ahmed El-Tantawy

More iOS Zero-Days, More Mercenary Spyware — This Time: Cytrox Predator

Apple Scrambled to Fix 3 More CVEs: Egyptian opposition presidential candidate Ahmed Eltantawy targeted “by the government ...
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‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch

Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...
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Vladimir Putin

Apple Fixes 0-Days — Russia Says US Used for Spying

Vulns unpatched for FOUR years: ‘Triangulation’ spyware said to use backdoor Apple gave to NSA ...
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Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild: Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The timestamps of ...
New Apple ‘Rapid’ Update is Slow, Messy FAIL

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 ...
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iPhone Privacy ‘Lies’ Exposed Again: Apple Analytics not Anonymous

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 ...
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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 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 ...
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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 ...