T-Mobile says 5.3M more customers affected by breach, IMEI data stolen
T-Mobile has confirmed that a massive data breach affecting both current and former customers is now worse than it originally reported.
T-Mobile has confirmed that a massive data breach affecting both current and former customers is now worse than it originally reported.
Apple's introduction of CSAM tools may be due to its high level of privacy, with messages submitted during the Epic Games App Store trial revealing Apple's anti-fraud chief thought its services was the "greatest platform for distributing" the material.
Tech companies have eroded the trust of users in the industry, believes Apple CEO Tim Cook, with privacy becoming collateral damage from features in products that aren't thought through carefully enough.
More than 80 civil rights groups have sent an open letter to Apple, asking the company to abandon its child safety plans in Messages and Photos, fearing expansion of the technology by governments.
Of the total 47.8 million people whose data was stolen in the T-Mobile server attack, more than 40 million of them are former and prospective T-Mobile customers — and the company claims no financial information was compromised.
Corellium, an iOS virtualization firm that was recently sued by Apple, has announced a new initiative meant to foster independent security research — and the first project is inspired by Apple's CSAM scanning project.
A German journalist's union has demanded that the European Commission step in over Apple's CSAM tools, believing that the system will be used to harvest contact information and perform other intrusions.
NordVPN has updated their macOS app to run natively on Apple's M1 chipset in the latest update to the virtual private network.
Apple has published a new document that provides more detail about the security and privacy of its new child safety features, including how it's designed to prevent misuse.
Craig Federighi has said that Apple was wrong to release three child protection features at the same time, and wishes the confusion had been avoided.
On the AppleInsider Podcast, production begins on the mini-LED 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, "iPhone 13" could feature portrait video mode, and we discuss the privacy implications of CSAM detection.
Apple employees are voicing concern over the company's new child safety features set to debut with iOS 15 this fall, with some saying the decision to roll out such tools could tarnish Apple's reputation as a bastion of user privacy.
Facebook plans on revamping how its advertising system works to place more value on user privacy and reduce the emphasis on data collection.
Apple's privacy chief Erik Neuenschwander has detailed some of the projections built into the company's CSAM scanning system that prevent it from being used for other purposes - including clarifying that the system performs no hashing if iCloud Photos is off.
Government abuses of Apple's CSAM iCloud detection system in the U.S., like expansion to terrorist subjects and similar matters, is prevented by the Fourth Amendment, according to security firm Corellium's chief operating officer.
On this special episode of the AppleInsider Podcast, guest Jason Aten joins us for a detailed explanation of Apple's new Child Safety initiatives, including sensitive photos in Messages, search, and CSAM in iCloud Photos.
Alex Stamos, former Facebook security chief, says Apple's approach to CSAM scanning and iMessage exploitation may have caused more harm than good for the cybersecurity community.
Apple has published a response to privacy criticisms of its new iCloud Photos feature of scanning for child abuse images, saying it "will refuse" government pressures to infringe privacy.
Tim Sweeney, the chief of Epic Games, has attacked Apple over its iCloud Photos and messages child safety initiatives, putting forward the idea of it being a way for governments to conduct surveillance.
An open letter making the rounds online asks Apple to halt plans to roll out new Child Safety tools designed to combat child sexual abuse material, with signatories including industry experts and high-profile names like Edward Snowden.
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