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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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Google Messages update bridges one gap between blue and green bubble people

Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Putting aside the lack of end-to-end encryption support, one of the most annoying things for Apple iPhone users about communicating with Android users via SMS are all the iOS features that get lost in translation. Having a visual effect translated to the deadpan “(sent with Balloons)” ruins whatever impact you intended […]

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Apple fixes iMessage zero-day exploited by Pegasus spyware

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Apple has released several security updates this week to patch a “FORCEDENTRY” vulnerability on iOS devices. The “zero-click, zero-day” vulnerability has been actively exploited by Pegasus, a spyware app developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, which has been known to target activists, journalists, and prominent people around […]

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Zero-click iMessage zeroday Utilized to hack on the iPhones of 36 journalists

Expand (charge: Apple) Three dozen journalists needed their iPhones murdered in July and August with what at the time was an iMessage zeroday harness which did not need the sufferers to take some actions to become infected, researchers stated. The exploit along with the payload it set up were created and marketed by NSO Group,” […]