Google Rolls out E2EE For Android Messages App
Google announced end-to-end encryption is now available in Android, but only for one-on-one conversations between users of the Messages app. “No matter who you’re messaging with, the information you share is personal. End-to-end encryption in Messages helps keep your conversations more secure while sending. It ensures that no one can read the content of your…
XcodeGhost Malware Discovered in 2015 Impacted 128 Million iOS Users
The information was uncovered in emails provided recently as part of the antitrust trial between Epic Games and Apple. The game maker filed a lawsuit against the tech giant last year in a California court over its App Store practices, specifically related to Apple removing Epic’s hit game, Fortnite, from the App Store for allegedly…
Tufin releases Vulnerability-Based Change Automation App
Tufin released the Vulnerability-Based Change Automation App (VCA). The new app expands Tufin’s vulnerability management capabilities with automated vulnerability checks prior to approving network access changes. When combined with the Vulnerability Mitigation App (VMA), Tufin delivers a vulnerability management solution that allows customers to maintain additional control over their attack surface when making network changes….
Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Data via Misconfigured Cloud Containers
The issue, the company notes, is rooted in the fact that many developers tend to overlook the security of cloud containers during the development process. Cloud services help resolve the issue of storage space on mobile devices, and developers have numerous such solutions to choose from, some of the most popular being Amazon Web Services,…
New Jailbreak Tool Works on Most iPhones
Unc0ver, a team of hackers behind the jailbreak tool, released a new tool that works on nearly every iPhone model and exploits a flaw that Apple reported was under active attack last month. The group says its new tool works on iOS 11 to iOS 14.3, which was rolled out in December 2020. It reportedly…
Mobile Health Apps Found to Expose Records of Millions of Users
Research conducted by Alissa Knight, partner at marketing agency Knight Ink, on behalf of mobile API threat protection firm Approov showed that the applications are to API attacks that unauthorized parties could leverage to access protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). With people increasingly relying on mHealth apps during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Apple fixes three actively exploited iOS zero-days
Apple has release a new batch of security updates and has fixed three iOS zero-days that “may have been actively exploited” by attackers. The three zero-days Two of the zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-1870 and CVE-2021-1871) are logic issues affecting the WebKit browser engine, which may allow a remote attacker to achieve code execution on devices running…
What’s up with WhatsApp’s privacy policy?
WhatsApp has been in the news recently after changes to its privacy policy caused a surge of interest in rival messaging app Signal. Initial reports may have worried a lot of folks, leading to inevitable clarifications and corrections. But what, you may ask, actually happened? Is there a problem? Are you at risk? Or should…
Apple to Press Ahead on Mobile Privacy, Despite Facebook Protests
The iPhone maker said it was moving ahead with updates to its mobile operating system to give users more information and control on tracking by apps on Apple devices. Apple earlier this year delayed the changes to give online advertisers time to adapt. But in a letter to the nonprofit group Ranking Digital Rights, Apple…
Securing mobile devices, apps, and users should be every CIO’s top priority
More than 80% of global employees do not want to return to the office full-time, despite 30% employees claiming that being isolated from their team was the biggest hindrance to productivity during lockdown, a MobileIron study reveals. The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly changed the way people work and accelerated the already growing remote work trend….
