December 02, 2020

How to steal photos off someone’s iPhone from across the street

The bug at the heart of this is already patched - but there's a lot to learn from this story anyway.

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April 30, 2020

“Zero-click” mobile phone attacks – and how to avoid them

What if a messaging app has to show you an unwanted message so you can decide whether you want it shown to you?

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January 09, 2020

Google’s Project Zero highlights patch quality with policy tweak

Google's Project Zero bug-hunting team has tweaked its 90-day responsible disclosure policy to help improve the quality and adoption of vendor patches.

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August 08, 2019

Update your iPhone – remote control holes revealed by researchers

You might not think your phone is as exposed as an internet server - but it's handling plenty of untrusted data from unknown sources!

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July 31, 2019

iMessage bug could have allowed attackers to read data from any iPhone

Google's Project Zero has unveiled details of a bug in Apple's iMessage that lets attackers read data from an iPhone without any user interaction.

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June 20, 2019

Update Firefox now! Zero-day found in the wild

Mozilla has fixed a critical zero-day bug in the latest point releases of the Firefox web browser.

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March 15, 2019

Ep. 023 – Facebook promises and Google Chrome patches [PODCAST]

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - listen now, and tell your friends and colleagues about us, too!

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March 06, 2019

Google reveals BuggyCow macOS security flaw

Google’s Project Zero researchers have revealed a "high severity" macOS security flaw nicknamed ‘BuggyCow’ which Apple appears to be in no rush to patch.

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October 10, 2018

How a WhatsApp call could have taken over your phone

A WhatsApp buffer overflow that crashed your phone due to audio data sent by a caller meant that just answering a call could spell trouble.

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