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Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2018
CVE-2018-4251 – Apple did not disable Intel Manufacturing Mode in its laptops

Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple did not disable Intel Manufacturing Mode in its laptops Experts from security firm Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple forgot did not lock it in laptops. The Intel Management Engine consists of a microcontroller that works with the Platform Controller Hub chip, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2018
White hat hacker found a macOS Mojave privacy bypass 0-day flaw on release day

The popular macOS expert and former NSA hacker has discovered a zero-day vulnerability in macOS on Mojave ‘s release day. It is always Patrick Wardle, this time the popular expert and former NSA hacker has found a zero-day flaw in macOS on Mojave ‘s release day. According to the expert, the implementation bug can be […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2018
A growing number of iOS apps collect and sell location data

A growing number of iOS apps currently collect location data, WiFi network IDs and other data, from iPhone users and sell them to monetization firms. A group of security researchers that developed the popular Guardian mobile firewall app revealed that a growing number of iOS apps currently collect location data, WiFi network IDs and other data, from […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
An Australian schoolboy hacked into Apple Servers and stole 90GB of secure files

According to Australian media, a teen hacker broke into Apple mainframe and downloaded 90GB of secure files. He dreams to work for the Tech Giant. I believe it is time for Apple to hire an Australian 16-year old schoolboy who hacked its computer systems. Yes, it is not a joke, according to Australian media the teen […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2018
Apple zero-day exposes macOS to Synthetic Mouse-Click attacks

Patrick Wardle, the popular white hat hacker, has discovered a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to carry out synthetic mouse-click attacks Patrick Wardle, the popular white hat hacker and chief research officer at Digita Security, has discovered a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to mimic mouse-clicks for kernel access. Wardle presented his discovery […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2018
Experts explained how to hack macs in enterprises through MDM

Researchers demonstrated how a sophisticated threat actor can hack a brand new Apple Mac computer in enterprise environments through MDM. A security duo composed by Jesse Endahl, CPO and CSO at macOS management firm Fleetsmith, and Max Bélanger, staff engineer at Dropbox, demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference how a persistent attacker could compromise […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2018
A malware paralyzed TSMC plants where also Apple produces its devices

A virus has infected systems at several Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) factories on Friday night, the plants where Apple produces its devices A malware has infected systems at several Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) factories on Friday night, the iPhone chipmaker plans. TSMC is the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of chips for tech giants, including Apple […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2018
Mobile Malware Campaign targets users in India through rogue MDM service

Talos Team have uncovered a “highly targeted” campaign leveraging a mobile malware distributed through a bogus MDM service Security experts from Talos Team have uncovered a “highly targeted” campaign leveraging a mobile malware that has been active at least since August 2015. The researchers believe that cyberspies are operating from China and they found spying […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2018
Just using a $39 device it is possible to defeat new iOS USB Restricted Mode

Once USB Restricted Mode is enabled on a device, no data communications occur over the Lightning port, but experts found a way to reset the countdown timer. Recently Apple released the iOS 11.4.1 that introduced a new security feature, dubbed USB Restricted Mode, designed to protect your devices against USB accessories used by forensics experts and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2018
A hacker devised a method to unlock any iPhone and iPad device

A security researcher has devised a method to brute force a passcode on every Apple iPhone or iPad, even the up-to-date ones. Since iOS 8 rolled out in 2014, iPhone and iPad devices are protected with encryption, without providing passcode it is quite impossible to unlock the device. If the user enters more than 10 times […]