Mobile Security
Chaos Computer Club claims to have "cracked" the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor

A posting from Naked Security about Iphone 5s fingerprint sensor: The biometrics team of Germany's well-known Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims it has"cracked" Apple's Touch ID system. Touch ID is the fingerprint sensor and the associated software that provides a biometric lock for the brand new iPhone 5s. Fingerprint readers have been common add-ons to laptops for […]

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Win Bitcoins, booze and cash! Be the first to crack the iPhone's Touch ID fingerprint sensor...

A posting from Dark Reading about iPhone's Touch ID fingerprint sensor: The fingerprint sensor on Apple's new iPhone 5s could well be the device-within-a-devicethat brings biometrics into the everyday mainstream. (There's good and bad in that. The good news is that if you paid extra for a laptop, years ago, because it had a fingerprint scanner you […]

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Mobile Security
US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

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Mac OS X
Apple's own Macs bitten by Java-based malware attack

An article form naked Securty about malware  on Mac:   If you still think malware on a Mac is more myth than reality you may want to talk to the security engineers over in Cupertino at a rather prestigious fruit company. According to Reuters, "Apple Inc. was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh […]

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