Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Apple Inc.’s new mobile-payment system has been hit by a wave of fraudulent transactions using credit-card data stolen in recent breaches of big retailers, including Home Depot Inc. and Target Corp., people familiar with the matter said. source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-pay-stung-bylow-techfraudsters-1425603036 For more…
Apple Pay Opens Up Floodgates For New Form Of Credit Card Fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Apple Pay, touted to be a more secure and easier way to pay for things in stores, has attracted a new wave of credit card fraud. With stolen identities and credit card details, scammers are using the mobile payment system to…
Important Tips to Make your Apple iPhone Hack Proof
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Apple iPhone has made life easier for the user. Accessibility and connectivity are made convenient for the user. However, overtaking someone else’s data has also been made convenient. If data accessibility is easier for you, it can be accessible for…
What Apple Is Missing About Cyber Security
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook attended a cyber security conference sponsored by the White House, in which he signed up for a framework to share information on cyber threats between companies. However, in an impassioned speech,…
Apple is about to change the way you log in to iMessage and FaceTime
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Apple has introduced two-factor authentication for iMessage and FaceTime, which makes the services much more secure and trickier to hack into. The Guardian reports that the extra-secure two-factor system is going to be rolled out to cover the two services. Two-factor…
Turns Out Apple Pay Can’t Solve Credit Card Fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Among other things, Apple’s Second Coming of the Mobile Payment Solution was meant to fix our broke-ass credit card security system. Only, according to (unconfirmed) reports, it’s doing exactly the opposite. The Drop Labs blog has a good (if technical) post…
Hackers Targeting Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iOS, 1st Major Malware Comes From China: Kevin Mahaffey
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker or group of hackers in China created the first major malware targeting Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iOS mobile operating system last year, Kevin Mahaffey said in an interview with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg West. According to the Lookout co-founder and…
Apple, Google encryption ‘not helping’ criminal investigation: AFP
Access to encryption technology, the growth of cloud services, and the Internet of Things pose challenges to the way the Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigates both traditional and online criminal activity. Speaking at the CeBIT GovInnovate conference in Canberra on […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Why the Cops Hate the New Apple and Google Phones
The police are upset about Apple and Google’s latest smartphone advances. The problem is the encryption in both the iOS 8 and Android Lollipop operating systems. It is turned on by default, and there is no master key that Apple or […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
U.S. Warns Apple Users About iOS ‘Masque Attack’
Security weakness allows a hacker to replace an iOS app with malware The U.S. government warned Apple gadget owners Thursday to look out for hackers exploiting a newly revealed vulnerability in the mobile operating system iOS. The so-called “Masque Attack” […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…