Tag Archives: iPhone security

Image courtesy of http://news.com.au I am pretty religious about updating my iPhone and iPad apps and check the App Store several times each week. Imagine my surprise, after updating 6 apps on my iPhone, when I decide to install a new app and was met with a security alert: I’ve …

Find My iPhone is a handy and now free utility from Apple that allows the location of your iPhone to be tracked if you lose it or have it stolen. There are numerous accounts of people who have been parted from their iPhones and happily reunited thanks to Find My …

Image Source: fanpop.com Just as a new hack, blacksn0w, promises to unlock iPhones with the latest Apple software from AT&T’s wireless network, Apple is looking for a sheriff to lock the smartphones back up again, permanently. A job posting on Apple corporate Web site seeks a security manager for the …

This weekend PC Magazine considered the danger of jailbreaking. There are many people who do it, and because of the current popularity of Cydia Store there’s no question more average people want to try the risk. Especially when there are new providers who promise adult stuff. Charlie Miller, principal analyst at …

Did you know that your iPhone takes screenshots of almost everything you do? Each time you hit the home button, change websites in Safari, or switch to landscape mode, it takes a screen capture. Why? Well the iPhone does this to do all of those fancy transitions you see when …

Macworld is reporting that Apple is aware of the recently discovered security hole that allows someone to circumvent the passcode lock by pressing “Emergency Call” and then double taping the home button. Apple also said that a fix for the problem would be included with the growing list of fixes in a September software …