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The feature is available starting from today. Before now, a block tool was created which are used by police, law enforcement agencies and others, to gain access to iPhones via the charging port and bypass the need for a password. But now, as announced by the company a new upgrade to its iOS software it will block such tool from gaining access to its device. The company confirmed this in a statement to Reuters, saying, “We’re constantly strengthening the security protections in every Apple product to help customers defend against hackers, identity thieves and intrusions into their personal data. We have the greatest respect for law enforcement, and we don’t design our security improvements to frustrate their efforts to do their jobs.” Early this last month, The feature has already been spotted in developer beta versions of iOS 11.4.1 and iOS12.  With the new update It will be made permanent in the public releases of its iOS software starting from today. iOS ...

Digitalization has taken the world by storm and has penetrated into almost every aspect of our lives and has brought with it a plethora of benefits. Lives have become much more comfortable and convenient and now the world is literally on the finger tips. But like every good thing this one has also come with its own share of cons. Over 1 million new strains of malware are created every day. Your website can be blacklisted by Google that blacklists over 9000 websites every day by just one identified infection. The Small to Medium sized enterprises or SMEs are among the most being attacked. More than 30 thousand SME websites are being targeted every day and the sad news is that over 50 percent of the IT professionals think that they do not face any risk. So here are a few ways as suggested by the experts of a reputed company of web development in India for protecting business websites from the malware. Read on. Keep the Software Updated – You should see to it that the Content Manage...

It is alarming, but yet nothing to worry about... just a few precautions to take. The micro blogging service- Twitter- discovered a bug that left the passwords of users in an internal log “unmasked”. This means that instead of showing up as an encrypted set of random sets of letters and numbers, the password itself was displayed in plain text. In a blog post released by the social media company, it was revealed that a bug had been identified that caused the password hashing process (which replaces your password with a random string of letters and numbers) to fail, leaving the unmasked passwords of its users stored in an internal log. Twitter is urging all of its more than 330 million users to immediately change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text. The bug occurred due to an issue in the hashing process that masks passwords by replacing them with a random string of characters that get stored on Twitter’s system. But due to an error with the system, a...

Password, it’s crystal clear to most people that this authentication process is weak and frankly a meaningless form but yet most of us still use password despite the fact that it sometimes causes distress to them,  is easily stolen,  forgotten and mostly unsafe and ineffective. The good news is that two standards bodies, FIDO and W3C announced a better way, a new password free protocol for the web called WebAuthn. WebAuthn has been working its way toward W3C approval for nearly two years, but yesterday marks the first major announcement of browser support. Apple has not commented on Safari support for WebAuthn, although the company is part of the working group that developed the standard. Read more: 90% Of Passwords Can Be Broken In Seconds Chrome, Firefox and Edge will soon support a new open standard known as WebAuthn . When implemented, it will allow users to use their mobile device to verify your identity. This could involve an app, a USB hardware key, or biom...