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Apple Unveils 'Lockdown Mode' to Defend Against Spyware

SecureWorld News

Apple announced plans to launch a new security feature called "Lockdown Mode" that will be available this fall when Apple releases its annual iOS update. The NSO Group, and others, are helping cybercriminals and nation-states accomplish this, but Apple has a plan to defend against these attacks.

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Here’s who Apple and Epic are calling to testify in next week’s trial

The Verge

Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th.

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The Zero Click, Zero Day iMessage Attack Against Journalists

SecureWorld News

and could hack the Apple iPhone 11. Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. Citizen Lab says this was due to an apparent Apple related exploit. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect.

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Apple's Emergency Patch: What it Means for Organizations

SecureWorld News

The Toronto-based research group works to protect journalists and activists from cyberattacks and spyware. And oftentimes they come across new tech-enabled spying efforts from Israel-based NSO Group, which claims to carefully vet sales of its spyware. Citizen Lab discovers zero-day and zero-click spyware. gif” extension.

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

Some say Apple’s App Store is a monopoly. Apple says it’s just giving customers what they want. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. We love our mobile apps. Apple makes the phones. Apple’s vertical integration model was fine until it wasn’t.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

Among the hacked accounts were President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, the Apple and Uber corporate accounts, and pop star Kanye West. Israeli 2009 Stuxnet attack , which destroyed centrifuges that Iran used to enrich uranium gas for its nuclear program. The spyware was made by Israel’s NSO Group.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

And then Google made Chrome, and Microsoft just kept making Internet Explorer, and Microsoft made a series of really bad mobile phones, and Apple made a good one, and within a few years Microsoft was an enterprise software company with a video game console division and it was hard to remember what the whole fuss had been about in the first place.