September 2020: An affiliate of the ransomware company REvil reveals the details of a cyber attack he carried out a few months earlier against the French company Elior. At the time, ransomware was already a significant threat, but nowhere near the scale it was about to take on. It was at this time, however, that…
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In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an important part of its storage portfolio, has been eclipsed as the tech world’s largest ever. But…
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Apple has withdrawn from providing its UK smartphone and computer users with encrypted cloud storage following a secret government order to require the company to provide back-door access to encrypted data. The tech firm confirmed it will no longer offer UK users its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service which allows users to store data in…
A few weeks after the UK government demanded Apple to create a backdoor on users’ encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud, Apple decided to pull out Advanced Data Protection from the region.As previously reported by BGR, the UK government requested access to the company’s encryption technology…
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With a deal between Apple and Alibaba now official, Bloomberg brings more details about this partnership. The publication explains how Apple Intelligence will actually work in China compared to the rest of the world, when this platform is expected to launch, and how Apple’s other partner will handle some AI tasks.According to the report, several…
An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyber attack waged through political means”. The claim refers to a Home Office secret demand last month (reported by Computer Weekly here, here and here) that Apple break the security protecting its Advanced Data Protection cloud security system to let…
Over 100 cyber security experts, companies and civil society groups have signed a letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop demands for Apple to create a backdoor that would allow the UK government access to encrypted communications and data stored on Apple’s iCloud service. The letter follows disclosures this week that the Home…
iOS 18 and the latest iPhone 16 series have been available for three months. With these updates, there are two major complaints from users: The Photos app’s new design sucks, and the library never stops indexing.While this is not necessarily an issue regarding iPhone 16 devices, I couldn’t help but relate these two pieces of…
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A bypass flaw in the FileProvider Transparency, Consent and Control (TCC) subsystem within Apple’s iOS operating system could leave users’ data dangerously exposed, according to researchers at Jamf Threat Labs. Assigned CVE-2024-44131, the issue was successfully patched by Apple in September 2024 and Jamf, whose researchers are credited with its discovery, is formally disclosing it…
iOS 18.2 beta testing is finally nearing its end. This iOS 18 update is expected to expand Apple Intelligence features. It also adds new functions for European users and more. This write-up covers everything you need to know about the new iOS 18.2 features coming soon to your iPhone.Release dateIf Apple follows the trend, iOS…
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