by AppleInsider | Feb 22, 2021 | iCloud, security
In a blog post shared by ZDNet, security researcher Vishal Bharad claims that he found a bug that would have allowed a hacker to inject a virus or malicious script onto Apple's iCloud website. According to Bharad, the vulnerability consisted of creating a Pages or... by AppleInsider | Feb 5, 2021 | Chrome, exploit, Google, security
Google has released Chrome version 88.0.4324.150 with an important fix for a zero-day vulnerability in the web browser that the company says is likely to have been exploited in the wild. Google hasn't provided specific details about the heap buffer overflow memory... by AppleInsider | Feb 3, 2021 | security
A sudo bug that can grant an attacker root access has been discovered to affect macOS Big Sur (via ZDNet). The security vulnerability, identified last week as "CVE-2021-3156" by the Qualys Security Team, affects sudo, which is a program that allows users to run... by AppleInsider | Jan 28, 2021 | security, WhatsApp
WhatsApp will soon require biometric authentication to link a WhatsApp account to a computer web browser or desktop app, reports The Verge. The mobile app uses a QR code to link a user account to a web browser or desktop app, but the company wants to make the process... by AppleInsider | Jan 14, 2021 | iOS 14, security
iOS does not utilize built-in encryption measures as much as it could do, allowing for potentially unnecessary security vulnerabilities, according to cryptographers at Johns Hopkins University (via Wired). Using publicly available documentation from Apple and Google,...