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Massive outage brought down most Apple services, including iCloud and iMessage

Enlarge / The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images ) Apple is experiencing far-reaching network outages that have affected services like Apple Music, iCloud, iMessage, Apple Maps, Apple company Card, Apple TV+, the App Store, FaceTime, Siri, and more. Users began […]

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Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4, 700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos

Enlarge / The Internet is unfortunately packed full of criminals seeking to steal sexual (or sexualizable) images from privately held cloud backup accounts. (credit: 1905HKN via Getty Images / Jim Salter ) The LA Times reported this week that Los Angeles man Hao Kuo “David” Chi pled guilty to four federal felonies related to his […]

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Apple photo-scanning plan faces global backlash from 90 rights groups

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | d3sign) More than 90 policy groups from the US and around the world signed an open letter urging Apple to drop its plan to have Apple devices scan photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). “The undersigned organizations committed to civil rights, human rights, and digital rights around the world […]

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Updated app from Apple brings iCloud Passwords to Windows

Enlarge / The updated iCloud for Windows and new iCloud Passwords app. (We’ve blacked out some private information here, obviously.) (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has released a new version of iCloud for Windows, numbered 12.5. The update adds the ability to access and manage passwords saved in iCloud from a Windows machine, a feature users […]

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White-hat hackers That had Management of Inner Apple System Receive 288,000 reward

Expand (credit: Nick Wright. For decades, Apple’s corporate community was vulnerable to hacks which might have stolen sensitive information from possibly millions of its clients and implemented malicious code in their telephones and servers, a security researcher said on Thursday. Sam Curry, a 20-year-old researcher that specializes in site security, stated, in complete, he and […]