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Safari's Tracking Prevention and Fraud Warning: What Apple Documents Beyond Private Relay
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (232+ words) Safari carries at least four documented privacy features that are separate from iCloud Private Relay and do not require an iCloud+ subscription: Intelligent Tracking Prevention, a free tier of IP address hiding from known trackers, a Privacy Report, and Fraudulent…...
ChatGPT Was Used as a Hidden Channel to Pull Gmail Data Across Accounts
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (703+ words) By Nokka | September 11, 2026 Security researchers at Check Point found a flaw in ChatGPT that let an attacker pull data from a victim's Gmail through a hidden channel between supposedly isolated user accounts [1]. OpenAI has fixed it and shut down the…...
Windows 11 Privacy Settings Most Users Never Change
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (493+ words) Most people blast through the Windows 11 setup, click “next” on everything, and never open the privacy settings again. And honestly, that’s by design. Microsoft ships Windows 11 with nearly all data-sharing options switched on by default. Unless you actively go looking,…...
Half of New Zealand agencies still have an email security gap
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (732+ words) Half of New Zealand government agencies are carrying a documented cyber control gap with less than two months until a compliance deadline. For insurance brokers, that is not a technology story. It is a client conversation that needs to happen…...
Security Bite Podcast: What's hitting Macs so far in 2026, plus OBTS v9 preview (Part 2)
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (212+ words) Security Bite Podcast: What’s hitting Macs so far in 2026, plus OBTS v9 preview (Part 2) 9to5mac.com Security Bite Podcast: What’s hitting Macs so far in 2026, plus OBTS v9 preview (Part 2) 9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified…...
My Security App Used to "Encrypt" Passwords With XOR. Here's the Post-Mortem I Wish More Devs Wrote.
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (427+ words) Most security software marketing sounds the same: "military-grade encryption," "unbreakable," "100% secure." I want to try something different. I'm going to tell you about a real mistake in an earlier version of my app, ATLOCK, how I found it, and exactly…...
Microsoft is using Windows 11 desktop backgrounds to display ads
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (472+ words) The Bing Wallpaper app now includes a promotional image for a collection of Harry Potter movies. The Bing Wallpaper app is one of the few items under the Bing brand that's praised. The app provides beautiful images that can be…...
ChatGPT Flaw Let a Planted Prompt Send a Victim's Gmail Data to Another Account
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (813+ words) Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept,…...
WeWorm Spreads Across iOS in Zero-Click Attacks Built in Days Using AI
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (566+ words) Imran Hussain is the founder and editor of iThinkDifferent, which he launched in 2008 to cover Apple news, reviews, and how-to guides. He has spent over 15 years writing about iOS, macOS, and the wider Apple ecosystem, with a focus on hands-on…...
iMessage brings ChatGPT for responses
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