One of the biggest announced features of the newly released iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is Apple Pay. This is Apple’s attempt to popularize mobile payments, which have been around in some form for years. For example, Google Wallet has been around since 2011. NFC (Near Field Communication) contactless payments have been around in some form for…
Read MoreWarren Tsai
Product Manager
The many announcements at Apple’s 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week was welcome news to the throngs of Apple developers and enthusiasts. It was also welcome news for another group of people with less than clean motives: cybercriminals. Last week we got a concrete example of how some cybercriminals are now actively targeting Apple ID accounts. A thread…
Read MoreRecently, there was a very public example of how not to do a tablet deployment. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Los Angeles Unified School District had been forced to suspend a program to provide iPads to students because several hundred students had figured out ways to remove security restrictions put in place by school administrators….
Read MoreIn the past couple of weeks, there has been some breathless reporting about how iOS users could now install pirated apps without having to jailbreak their phones. This was made possible by certain Chinese app store-like services. Some of the reporting has been wondering how this was possible, but anyone with knowledge of iOS enterprise…
Read MoreLast week the news sites were full of headlines proclaiming that the “first iOS malware” had hit the iOS App Store. Just one problem with those headlines: they weren’t 100% accurate. The “Find and Call” app – the Android version of which we detect as ANDROIDOS_INFOLKFIDCAL.A, and the iOS version as IOS_INFOLKCONTACTS.A – has only…
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