Security industry reacts to Apple iOS triple zero-day threats
Active threats that can exploit Apple devices are not commonplace. That said, Apple has just fixed an exploit that uses no less than three critical iOS zero-day threats.
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Pokemon GO security: gotta catch ’em all
Pokemon GO is the biggest app sensation around; earning millions per day by way of in-game purchases. So here’s a Pokemon GO security round-up.
The worrying case of the Su-A-Cyder sandjack attack
We get inside the tale of the iOS SideJacking app vulnerability that Apple knows about but hasn’t patched yet. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin.
Inside XCodeGhost iOS threat: weaponising Apple’s application development software
The XCodeGhost iOS threat is back, and this time it’s serious; seriously stealthy. Oh, and it’s also no longer largely a Chinese problem. IT Security Thing investigates.
MoLe: a smartwatch side-channel attack that poses no real world threat
Researchers from the University of Illinois have published a paper entitled MoLe: Motion Leaks through Smartwatch Sensors, which, if you believed everything you read online, might lead you to think that your smartwatch is at risk to hackers.
More Hacking Team fallout: Masque Attack weaponised and in the wild
The Hacking Team breach just keeps on giving, and now researchers have uncovered evidence of a fully weaponised Masque Attack infrastructure in the wild courtesy of the compromised documentation dump.
Adobe Flash: Time to say goodbye
Adobe Flash is, without a shred of doubt in my mind, living on borrowed time. This is courtesy of many things, but most of all the consistent insecurity record that follows it around like a crazed stalker in a bad movie.