SAN FRANCISCO - Scammers continuously create new tactics to extract money from unsuspecting individuals. As awareness grows around phone call scams, they've resorted to new messaging scams. Personal data security company Zimperium has discovered that a new attack "exclusively targeting mobile devices" has been caught "stealing credentials and sensitive data," MSN reported. Phone scams can
WASHINGTON DC - Timing is everything. Just as Apple’s adoption of RCS had seemed to signal a return to text messaging versus the unstoppable growth of WhatsApp, then along comes a surprising new hurdle to stop that in its tracks. While messaging Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone is secure, messaging from one to the
ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity expert Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest, provides details on Apple's plans to search iPhones for pictures of child abuse and if found report them to authorities. Privacy advocates are up in arms even as Apple assured them this week that police authorities would not be given access to iPhone. Richard also
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple last week said it will refuse any government demands to expand its new photo-scanning technology beyond the current plan of using it only to detect CSAM (child sexual abuse material). Apple has faced days of criticism from security experts, privacy advocates, and privacy-minded users over the plan it announced Thursday, in
ANN ARBOR – On MITech TV Aug. 9 at 2 pm, Mike Eddy, VP of Corporate Development at Resonant, will talk about the rapid acceptance of 5G mobile technology worldwide. Doug Miller, director for the Upper Peninsula Cybersecurity Institute, will explain what Northern Michigan University is doing to help fill the cybersecurity job gap in
SAN FRANCISCO - An iPhone hacking team has released a new jailbreak tool for almost every iPhone, including the most recent models, by using the same vulnerability that Apple last month said was under active attack by hackers. The Unc0ver team released its latest jailbreak this weekend, and says it works on iOS 11 (iPhone 5s and
EGHAM, United Kingdom – Global sales of smartphones to consumers totaled 344 million units in the second quarter, a 4.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago, a new report contends. But bad news for Apple is the iPhone continued its downward slide in North America and Western Europe, and even worse in
DETROIT - Mobile app developer jācapps and Greater Media's WMMR have launched the radio station's mobile app that is now part of the Apple CarPlay ecosystem. The release is part of jācapps' "App Everywhere" offerings for radio broadcasters. "It took a lot of collaboration with the Apple and WMMR teams, and we're excited that broadcast
CUPERTINO - A new iPhone diagnostic app - aimed to reveal if your device had been infected by malware - has been given the cold shoulder by Apple. Released little more than a week ago, an app dubbed System and Security Info aimed to deliver core details about your iPhone, including your CPU, memory and
WASHINGTON DC - The FBI is maintaining its silence about a hack that gave it access to data on a terrorist's iPhone, although earlier reports claimed an Israeli company masterminded the exploit. As expected, the agency released a statement Wednesday, reported by CNET.Com, arguing that it doesn't know enough about the hacking method to submit
