Apple’s new iOS 10 recently made headlines after MIT Technology … from exploiting vulnerabilities to crack locked iOS devices, like what the FBI did to hack into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone.
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They then pay those hackers for finding the glitches and patch them before they can be exploited by a malicious hacker. While Apple said in its statement that unencrypting the iOS 10 kernel—something it hadn’t done in previous iOS versions—would …
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During the first three months of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the private mail server she used for sending emails was unencrypted and unauthenticated using digital certificates, according to a study of her mail domain by security firm Venafi.
That means that during those three months the server – clintonemail.com – would be open to eavesdropping and compromise, the company says. The security issues are troubling because now former Secretary of State Clinton has come under fire for using a private email server to conduct official business. Clinton has defended her private system and said it was secure.
The domain was registered before Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State Jan. 21, 2009, and the first certificate for it was registered in March 29, 2009, Venafi says, based on data it gathered using its new TrustNet service.
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A new Chrome extension highlights tools embedded in websites that could pose privacy risks by sending data unencrypted over the Internet.
It’s hard to find a major website that doesn’t use a variety of third-party tracking tools for online advertising, social media and analytics. But if the trackers send data unencrypted, it is possible for those who have network-level access—such as an ISP or government—to spy on the data and use it for their own tracking.
It’s partly the fault of websites that have not yet enabled HTTPS, which encrypts data sent between a computer and server, as well as companies that have not enabled it in their tracking tools.
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