Bugs & Exploits

Viber calling and messaging service hacked, 200 million phone numbers, IDs, IP addresses potentially compromised

Following just days after Tango's servers were compromised, the Syrian Electronic Army(SEA) has hacked another calling and messaging service, Viber. E Hacking News is reporting that this time SEA was able to acquire a partial database backup containing phone numbers, UDIDs (Viber generated, not Apple UDIDs) and IP addresses, among other user information for some of Viber's more than 200...

SIM card hack announced... just enough to scare people

Rene Ritchie 6 years ago

There's news from Security Research Labs making the rounds that a way to hack and clone SIM cards - the subscriber identification modules used in phones and tablets to connect them to voice and data networks - has been discovered and will be expounded upon at a later date. It involves an old DES-56 exploit - Jerry Hildenbrand provides the details over on Android Central - but that's...

Security researcher claims to have reported bugs shortly before Apple took down its developer portal

Nick Arnott 6 years ago 9

London-based security researcher Ibrahim Balic has come forward, claiming he may be the one behind Apple's recent security threat. Following Apple's statement to developers earlier regarding a security threat to the developer portal, Balic posted a comment on TechCrunch's report of the story trying to set the record straight that no harm was ever intended.

Tango chat service hacked, 1.5 terabytes of phone, contact, and email data reportedly compromised

Nick Arnott 6 years ago 5

The Syrian Electronic Army has reportedly hacked the popular video chat app Tango. Since announcing the hack on Twitter yesterday, the group has posted a series of photos supporting their claims, and state they've acquired 1.5 terabytes of data.

MacBook Air (2013) software update 1.0 is here to fix all your Wi-Fi dropping, photoshop flickering, audio fluctuating ills

Rene Ritchie 6 years ago 3

A software update is now available for the new-as-in-2013 MacBook Air. Apple describes it as follows:

Tumblr updates iOS app, fixes important potential password security issue

Nick Arnott 6 years ago

Tumblr for iOS has been updated with an important security fix. According to Tumblr's blog post, there was an issue in the app that allowed for a user's password to be compromised in certain circumstances. Free - Update now

iOS app flagged for malware, and why you shouldn't worry

Nick Arnott 6 years ago 8

An iOS game called Simply Find It, when run through BitDefender’s virus scanner, reportedly returns a positive result for Trojan.JS.iframe.BKD. This has drawn into question the effectiveness of Apple’s App Store approval process. Is this something that Apple should have caught, and is it something App Store customers should be worried about?

How to test Facebook Chat Heads and stickers for iOS right now, even if they haven't yet been enabled for your account

Nick Arnott 6 years ago 20

Today Facebook released a fairly major update for the iOS Facebook app. Among the new features are messenger stickers and Chat Heads (a horribly named feature first announced for Facebook Home). Currently these new features have only rolled out to a limited number of users. However, if you have an urgent need to test them out, and you don't mind doing a little tweaking, you can...

Option to reset Photo Stream apparently MIA

Allyson Kazmucha 6 years ago 4

Apple used to provide the option to reset Photo Stream via iCloud.com, but it looks like that feature is currently missing-in-action.

Apple rolls out fix for password reset security hole, iForgot site back up

Nick Arnott 6 years ago 16

Apple’s iForgot password reset page is now back online, and iMore has verified that the security hole, discovered earlier today in Apple’s password reset page, has been closed.