#Apple silently uploads your #passwords and keeps them
October 31 2024

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/10/4.html

This is a follow-up to my blog post macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions from five months ago. The TL;DR of that blog post is that when you have iCloud enabled but not iCloud Keychain, updating from Ventura to Sonoma causes iCloud Keychain to be silently enabled. (I don't know yet whether that still occurs when updating from Sonoma to Sequoia.) What I didn't realize at the time, indeed didn't realize until now, is that iCloud Keychain already uploaded all of my passwords and kept them in iCloud even after I disabled iCloud Keychain...

Employees Speak Out: #Google, #Apple, #Microsoft, & Intel Discriminate Against #White Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwtMtaIkGM

#loxism #kalergi

#Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection for UK users following government demands for backdoor access, allowing Apple and law enforcement to access iCloud photos and documents

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/21/apple-removes-advanced-data-protection-tool-uk-government

UK Tribunal Blocks Secret Gov’t Case Against Apple Encryption

A government that demands invisibility in court is one step away from disappearing accountability altogether.

With a necessary reality check, a #UK tribunal has told the government that, no, it cannot hold a secret legal battle against #Apple over #encryption. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (#IPT), the body meant to oversee the country’s surveillance powers, has dismissed efforts by the Home Office to keep the entire case hidden from public view. And in doing so, it has delivered a quietly important win for press freedom and digital rights. Although, things are far from over.

@reclaimthenet
#BigBrother #OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct

Targeted iPhone attacks in the wild.

#Apple just patched 2 new zero-days—bringing 2025’s total to 5 actively exploited flaws.

→ One lets hackers run code via malicious audio files
→ Another bypasses Pointer Authentication using memory tricks

Update now: #iOS 18.4.1, #macOS Sequoia 15.4.1, #tvOS, #visionOS

@thehackernews

Graphite Caught: First Forensic Confirmation of Paragon’s iOS Mercenary Spyware Finds Journalists Targeted | The Citizen Lab

On April 29, 2025, a select group of iOS users were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware. Among the group were two journalists that consented for the technical analysis of their cases. The key findings from our forensic analysis of their devices are summarized below:

Our forensic analysis concluded that one of the journalist’s devices was compromised with Paragon’s Graphite spyware in January and early February 2025 while running iOS 18.2.1. We attribute the compromise to Graphite with high confidence because logs on the device indicated that it made a series of requests to a server that, during the same time period, matched our published Fingerprint P1. We linked this fingerprint to Paragon’s Graphite spyware with high confidence.

#ParagonGraphite #Graphite #Apple #iOS

⚡ How Much Data Are #Apple & #Google Really Collecting?

In my interview with 7Sees, we broke down just how much data Big Tech is harvesting from your phone—even when you're not using it.

A study out of Trinity College in Dublin found that across U.S. users, Apple collects about 12GB of data every 12 hours—that’s like 6 full-length movies. But Google? They collect 20 times that. Over 1 terabyte.

This isn’t just background activity—it’s a billion-dollar spy industry disguised as convenience.

📺 Full interview: Big Tech's Billion Dollar Spy Industry

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📱 Critical zero-click vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) within #WhatsApp has been leveraged in targeted #spyware operations, in conjunction with an #Apple Imagel0 flaw (CVE-2025-43300).

This combination enabled malicious actors to disseminate exploits via WhatsApp, resulting in potential data exfiltration from the user's Apple device.

The attack sequence involved:
🚫Attacker-controlled delivery
🚫Malicious DNG/remote image (Imagel0) parsing vulnerability (OOB write)
➿ Remote code execution
All occurring without user engagement.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/whatsapp-fixes-zero-click-bug-used-to-hack-apple-users-with-spyware/

https://blog.quarkslab.com/patch-analysis-of-Apple-iOS-CVE-2025-43300.html

#iphone #ios

#Apple launches new Digital #ID feature in Wallet using US passport— Article

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

#apple #cloud #why

Technology stole your privacy, and with it your freedom. Yannik Schrade has a plan to get it back.

Chapters:
0:00 Why Is Privacy So Important?
4:13 Is Schrade Prepared to Suffer for His Cause?
10:38 Why Doesn't Our Current System Protect Our Privacy?
14:16 Are We Being Surveilled?
26:19 Is the iPhone Safer Than Android?
31:25 Is It Truly Possible to Communicate Privately?
35:20 Is Signal a CIA Operation?
47:54 Is the Current State of the Art Cryptography Secure?
53:02 How Did Schrade Build This Technology?
56:42 Is It Possible to Move Money Privately?
1:03:20 The Arrest of Roman Storm
1:14:48 Are Cash Transactions Private?
1:18:37 Is Schrade Concerned for His Safety?
1:23:02 How Will This Technology Impact Our Lives?
1:28:54 Will Any Big Hardware Manufacturers Sell Truly Secure Devices?
1:35:17 Are All Our Text Messages Being Monitored?
1:39:58 Is Your Phone Listening to You?
1:44:50 Where Can People Learn More About Schrade's Work?

#TuckerCarlson #spy #spyware #encryption #CIA #crypto #technology #EdwardSnowden #NSA #intelligenceagencies #blockchain #Apple #news #politics #podcast

⚠️ Dark Sword 🗡️ hacker group has been actively exploiting #Apple #iOS Zero-Day exploit to takeover device with a link click.

The exploit chain used 6 Zero-Day vulnerabilities.

Software patch has been released.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain

#apple #iOS 26.4

Apple Forces UK iPhone Age Checks in iOS 26.4 | Reclaim the Net

With iOS 26.4, #Apple has turned every iPhone in the UK into an identity checkpoint. The update, released March 24, requires all UK users to confirm they’re 18 or older before accessing certain features and services on their Apple Account.
UK communications regulator Ofcom called it “a real win for children and families.”

The infrastructure being built is more of a problem than that framing suggests.
Apple has, without warning, placed a gatekeeper on the devices of 35 million UK users who paid good money for full-featured smartphones and now find themselves holding something closer to a supervised children’s tablet.

@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #EvilApple #AgeVerification

Apple iOS 26.4 Age Check Locks Out UK Users | Reclaim The Net

Apple’s iOS 26.4 age verification system is failing UK users who don’t have a credit card or photocard driving license, leaving them with no way to prove they’re adults on devices they’ve owned for years.

The system arrived without warning, without explanation, and without any apparent consideration for the people who don’t fit Apple’s narrow assumptions about what a British adult looks like.

#BigBrother #UK #Apple #FacialReconaissance

>UK fines Apple for hosting Okko, a Russian movie streaming service
>Apple removes VPN & proxy apps for Russian users

Just like the last time, the new Iron Curtain was devised by the UK, is being imposed by the US, and will, without a doubt, be blamed on Russia.

It's remarkable how synchronized the Russian government and the West are at banning things for Russian citizens. Almost like they're in a group chat together. Wait, they are?...

@rwapodcast
#Apple #UK #Russia