Apple confirms four-day Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping event
– Resolves an issue that prevented opening a web link in Messages – Fixes an issue that could prevent users from returning to Mail after previewing a message attachment – Fixes an issue that could cause Mail notifications to reappear on the Lock screen after they had been cleared – Resolves an issue that could cause time and notifications to disappear from the Lock Screen – Resolves an issue that prevented parents from using Face ID to approve Ask to Buy requests – Fixes an issue in Weather where current weather conditions may not have been updated – Fixes an issue where contacts may not sync with a car’s phone book when connected over Bluetooth – Addresses an issue that could prevent audio apps from playing in cars when the app was in the background This update for iOS does bring with it many features, but many of them are being overshadowed by the Battery Health app. With this app, you can monitor the health of your iPhone battery and find out if your iPhone is being throttled or not. If it is, you can easily disable the throttling, which is a must needed addition to iOS since the recent revelation of iPhone throttling. What do you think? Is this too little too late for Apple or are you glad to see them include this feature along with a host of other bug fixes and additions in iOS? Tell me your thoughts in the comments below. ABOUT THE AUTHOR ONMARCH 18 "GRAYKEY HACKS ANY IPHONE, INCLUDING THE IPHONE X" GrayKey Hacks Any iPhone, Including the iPhone X How many of you remember the time that Apple went head to head with the FBI over the security of their iPhones? Apple has long touted the security of their devices, and for a long time they were right. But, what you probably don’t realize is that the FBI eventually backed down from Apple after they found a third party solution to hacking the iPhone.
What’s even more disturbing is that this hack, and a device known as GrayKey that performs the hack, seems to still exist and can even be used to hack modern iPhones such as the iPhone X. Image Source: Malwarebytes GrayKey was first detailed in a post from Malwarebytes, and it looks a lot like an Apple TV, but with two lightning cables on the end. Two phones can be connected for about two minutes and then unplugged and in a matter of minutes, they can be unlocked. The hack itself is all done on the iPhone, so it seems that GrayKey loads something onto them to perform the hack. In a way GrayKey jailbreaks the phone and then runs the hack. After a few minutes, the phone is unlocked and the entire contents of the phone is then dumped on the GrayKey device. Authorities or whoever else has one of these devices can then browse everything on your phone, including pictures, apps, emails, texts…
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everything. Image Source: Malwarebytes According to Malwarebytes, GrayKey comes in two different versions. The first costs $15,000 and requires an Internet connection and is geofenced to a single location. The second, at a cost of $30,000, will let you use GrayKey without Internet and allow you to take the device anywhere you want.
Currently, these devices are in use by law enforcement across the country, so you shouldn’t have to worry about hackers getting ahold of your phone and using the data against you. But, it could only be a matter of time and it does bring to light more questions about privacy and what rights law enforcement have to the data on your smartphones. What isn’t clear is if GrayKey is using a backdoor that was built by Apple or simply exploiting a current security flaw in iOS that Apple has yet to patch. What’s more alarming, in my mind, is that someone found a way to crack Apple’s encryption, and that could spell trouble for us all, and not just from law enforcement. If one person did it, sooner or later someone else will, too.
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