In yet another sign of the mobile-first world we live in, even muggings and robberies are starting to take on a tech-savvy flair. As was the case during one 2017 incident in Washington DC, for example ...
A new report from Motherboard today looks into the world of hacking iCloud-locked iPhones. While turning on Find My iPhone (which enables the iCloud lock) is generally thought to be quite secure, ...
Apple treats these as two distinct systems that include an extra code to protect your account. But even people who have enabled either two-step or two-factor are hard pressed to understand which is ...
The FBI has released a press statement explaining its motivation for resetting the iCloud password in the San Bernardino iPhone backdoor/unlock case. It seems like a screw-up, which prevented Apple ...
Learn how to unlock an iPhone without a passcode before you're stuck. You never know when these methods will come in handy. Perhaps you recently changed your iPhone’s passcode to secure your ...
Usually it would start with "so I forgot my passcode". When I'd tell the person that all they needed to do was plug it into a computer with the iTunes account assigned to their phone (this was prior ...
KrebsOnSecurity recently featured the story of a Brazilian man who was peppered with phishing attacks trying to steal his Apple iCloud username and password after his wife’s phone was stolen in a ...
A security report out Tuesdays sheds new light on the lucrative business of unlocking and reselling stolen iPhones, a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise spanning the globe. The tools used by ...