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[orbitbrain]

Apple Adds 'Lockdown Mode' to Thwart .Gov Mercenary Spyware

Apple Adds ‘Lockdown Mode’ to Thwart .Gov Mercenary Spyware

Home › Cyberwarfare Apple Adds ‘Lockdown Mode’ to Thwart .Gov Mercenary Spyware By Ryan Naraine on July 06, 2022 Tweet Faced with a surge in state-sponsored mercenary spyware attacks targeting its flagship iOS platform, Apple plans to add a new ‘Lockdown Mode’ that significantly reduces attack surface and adds technical roadblocks to limit sophisticated software exploits. The Cupertino, Calif.…

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[macdailynews]

NSO Group hacked new Pegasus victims weeks after Apple sought injunction

NSO Group hacked new Pegasus victims weeks after Apple sought injunction

Security researchers say they have found evidence that a journalist and human rights defender’s iPhone was hacked with the Pegasus spyware just weeks after Apple sued the spyware’s maker NSO Group to stop it from targeting Apple device users. iPhone passcode lock screen Zack Whittaker for techCrunch: Award-winning journalist Suhair Jaradat’s phone was hacked with the notorious spyware as…

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[macdailynews]

New Pegasus zero-click iPhone attack defeats Apple’s Blastdoor protections

New Pegasus zero-click iPhone attack defeats Apple’s Blastdoor protections

Researchers at Citizen Lab say a Bahraini human rights activist’s iPhone was silently hacked earlier this year by a powerful spyware sold to nation-states, defeating new “Blastdoor” security protections that Apple designed to withstand covert compromises. Zack Whittaker for TechCrunch: Citizen Lab, the internet watchdog based at the University of Toronto, analyzed the activist’s iPhone 12 Pro…

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[macdailynews]

Apple adds 'BlastDoor' security feature to fight iMessage hacks

Apple adds ‘BlastDoor’ security feature to fight iMessage hacks

Apple has added a ‘BlastDoor’ security feature across its operating systems to battle hacks into its devices via incoming iMessages. Stephen Nellis for Reuters: The “BlastDoor” feature processes incoming iMessage traffic and only passes on safe data to the rest of an Apple device’s operating system, company officials said in a briefing. Starting in 2016, a team of former U.S. government…

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يعني إيه ميزة الأمان BlastDoor بتطبيق iMessage ؟

يعني إيه ميزة الأمان BlastDoor بتطبيق iMessage ؟

يعد تطبيق iMessage من أبل واحد من أبرز تطبيقات التراسل الفوري بين المستخدمين، حيث يوفر مميزات متقدمة لتحسين تجربة التواصل، إلا أن شركة أبل قد أضافت ميزة جديدة إلى التطبيق في إصدار iOS 14 و iPadOS 14 من شأنه أن يحمي محتوى الرسائل بشكل أكثر أمانًا، وهي ميزة BlastDoor.   ما هي ميزة BlastDoor تم تطوير هذه التقنية لمعالجة ثغرة أمنية ظهرت في نهاية 2020، حيث تقوم هذه الميزة بفك محتويات جميع الرسائل…

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[idropnews]

This Cool New iOS 14 ‘BlastDoor’ Will Protect You From Dangerous iMessages

Over the past few years, malicious text messages have become a very common method for hackers to launch malware attacks against iPhone users, but now it looks like Apple has quietly baked some hard line security into iOS 14 to help make sure that what happens in your Messages app stays in your Messages app. […] https://www.idropnews.com/news/this-cool-new-ios-14-blastdoor-feature-will-protect-you-from-dangerous-imessages/151435/