Apple bans iPhone app that warned if you had been secretly hacked

Apple has banned a top-selling iOS app that raised the alarm if it determined your iPhone or iPad had been jailbroken without your knowledge. And the security researcher responsible for the app isn’t at all happy…
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Mozilla asks court to force FBI into revealing potential Firefox zero-day vulnerability

The FBI collected the IP and MAC addresses of visitors to a child sexual abuse website. But how did they do it? Mozilla wants to know – but the FBI wants to keep details of the flaw it exploited secret.
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Adobe warns of Flash zero-day vulnerability, being actively exploited by online criminals

Adobe Flash users find themselves in danger once again, as they wait for an emergency security patch to fix a vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
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