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This week, Google reported about its success in adopting the HTTPS standard: 80% of applications encrypt traffic by default. So, in the official blog of the IT giant, appeared a message that currently 4 out of 5 applications (80%) available through the Google Play Store encrypt traffic by default and …

This week it became known that due to the use of third-party SDKs, the data of Twitter and Facebook users leaked to the side (of course, without any knowledge). SDK (software development kit) is a set of developmental tools that allows software specialists to create applications for a specific software …

Back in July of this year, information security specialist Bob Gendler, specializing in Apple device issues, discovered that Apple Mail on macOS stores encrypted messages in clear text in the snippets.db database. In fact, this vulnerability allows reading encrypted Apple Mail letters on macOS. As Gendler explains on his blog, …

FoxGuard researcher Monta Elkins equipped the Cisco firewall with a bug, the so-called “hardware bookmark,” without much expense and efforts. More than a year has passed since Bloomberg published an article describing the hardware “bookmarks” that were allegedly found on Supermicro server boards and allowed Chinese hackers to compromise them. …

In the Android version of the Signal secure messenger has been identified a logical error that allows spying on users. With the vulnerability, criminals can initiate a call and automatically answer it without the consent of the user. In other words, with the help of a bug, you can turn …

Today, an information security researcher known by the pseudonym axi0mX has published an open access jailbreak suitable for almost any iOS device with chips from A5 to A11 released between 2011 and 2017. That is, jailbreak is relevant for iPhone models from iPhone 4S to iPhone 8 and X. It …

The publication in ZDNet drew attention to the fact that amid a flurry of criticism that hit Google because of Manifest v3, the situation around Apple looks pretty interesting. The fact is that Apple limited the work of blockers and other extensions in Safari, but no one was indignant at …

Information security specialist Shitesh Sachan told The Hacker News about a problem he recently discovered in the WhatsApp messenger: it does not delete files sent to iPhone users. The problem is very similar to a bug that researcher Dhiraj Mishra recently discovered on Telegram. So, Sachan noticed that even if …

Researcher Jose Rodriguez told The Register that the latest version of iOS 13 is vulnerable to the same type of lock screen bypass as previous versions. Rodriguez discovered a bug that allows opening the address book without unlocking the device, back in July of this year, when iOS 13 was …

Researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security have described a Simjacker attack that uses SMS messages to send SIM Toolkit (STK) and S @ T Browser instructions on a SIM card. For more than two years, cybercriminals have been monitoring SIM card owners using Simjacker. Experts have warned that this attack is not …