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Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs – Update Now

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In response to a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild, Apple provided security upgrades on Monday for the Safari web browser, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Linux. A threat actor could use the problem, identified as CVE-2024-23222, which is a type confusion bug in the WebKit browser engine, to execute arbitrary […]

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Apple Plans To Stop FaceTime and iMessage For iPhones in the UK.

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In reaction to new measures that would increase the amount of digital surveillance that state intelligence agencies are allowed to conduct, Apple has issued a warning that it would prefer to discontinue providing iMessage and FaceTime services in the U.K. than give in to pressure from the government. The iPhone manufacturer is the most recent

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Facebook Stops Facial Recognition and Deletes Billions of Records

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Meta, facebook’s newly rebranded parent company on Tuesday announced plans to stop its decade-old “Face Recognition” system and would also delete more than a billion users’ facial recognition templates as part of a wider initiative to limit the use of the technology across its products. This shutdown would take effect over the coming weeks and

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Chinese Payment-Terminal Company Raided By The FBI

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In furtherance of a federal investigation the FBI has searched the Florida premises of a Chinese payment-terminal provider. This comprised of the warehouse and offices belonging to Pax Technology. Pax was founded two decades ago and is headquartered in Shenzhen. According to its website, the company has delivered over 57 million terminals to more than

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Google Plans To Implement A 2-factor Authentication by Default for 150million of its Users

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Google is currently making plans to enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year in an aim to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security. Google will also be requiring 2 million YouTube creators to switch on the setting which it calls two-step verification (2SV), and

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