If while using your iPhone, you are confronted with a pop-up that reads “Your Apple iPhone is severely damaged” you don’t have to panic. What you are looking at is a very common phishing scam that is trying to get you to download apps and allow access to personal information.
Apple and Samsung appear to agree on one point: a smartphone no longer has to cost more than $1,000. However, their perspectives on what makes a low-cost phone desirable differ substantially.
Giving Timur Yunosov, a Russian cybersecurity researcher with a predilection for exploiting weaknesses in payment gadgets, access to my Apple iPhone may have been a mistake. Yunosov was emptying my already depleted bank account, pushing it into overdraft, within minutes of providing it to him, by just touching the locked device onto a terminal.
Apple’s long-rumored virtual or augmented reality headgear may not be released until 2023. But developers have discovered new references to a new “realityOS” that might power it. RealityOS, first referred to as “rOS” by Bloomberg News in 2017, was also discovered in several pre-release iOS 13 versions.
If you use almost any Apple products, you’ll want to check for and apply an update that will prevent your devices from being spied on. Apple has just issued an emergency software update for a critical vulnerability that was recently discovered. The new updates were pushed out on Monday, September 13th, 2021, and include a major security fix for the Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Mac computers and laptops.