Apple Blocks ‘Beeper Mini’, Citing Security Concerns. But Beeper Keeps Trying

A 16-year-old high school student reverse engineered Apple’s messaging protocol, leading to the launch of an interoperable Android app called “Beeper Mini”.

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Apple Issues Urgent Security Patches for Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

By Waqas
Immediate Action Required: Update Your Apple Devices, Including iPads, MacBooks, and iPhones, NOW!
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Double-factor auth to unlock iPhone in general and, especially, Passwords app in particular? [migrated]

Is it possible to make iPhone require both FaceID and passcode when unlocking the device?
Especially Passwords app is guilty of relying solely on FaceID to pull up a password for a website or an app. I thought I could at least force it to … Continue reading Double-factor auth to unlock iPhone in general and, especially, Passwords app in particular? [migrated]

Apple to Add Manual Authentication to iMessage

Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. iMessage is getting it:

The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its name says: it lets you add a manual verification step in an iMessage conversation to confirm that the other person is who their device says they are. (SMS conversations lack any reliable method for verification­—sorry, green-bubble friends.) Instead of relying on Apple to verify the other person’s identity using information stored securely on Apple’s servers, you and the other party read a short verification code to each other, either in person or on a phone call. Once you’ve validated the conversation, your devices maintain a chain of trust in which neither you nor the other person has given any private encryption information to each other or Apple. If anything changes in the encryption keys each of you verified, the Messages app will notice and provide an alert or warning…

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