Daily Interesting iPhone News

If you don’t mind using a third-party browser on your iPhone, there’s a new option called GetCocoon for people who want to surf more safely on iOS.

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Yesterday, I had one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life when I was mugged at knife point in broad daylight just metres from my front door. But I learnt a lot about how I could have allowed the police to better respond to a crime like this, and the actions that I needed to take to ensure my data was safe.

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On the heels of yet another person killed for their iPhone, the Daily News learns that thefts of the devices (along with iPads) have risen 44% from last year.

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Apple appears to have enhanced its iTunes account security by asking users a series of security questions on their iOS devices. Users are confronted with a “Security Info Required” prompt and asked to provide answers to their choice of three security questions. Users are also asked to provide a second email address that can be used if the one associated with their Apple ID is compromised.

Read more www.computerworld.com.sg

If you’re a cop with a mobile phone to search, here’s how you can force Apple and Google to let you bypass those pesky lock screens.

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PanicGuard, created by Danish entrepreneur Mikkel Dissing, is also endorsed by the National Mobile Crime Unit. Users of PanicGuard can activate the app when they feel that they are in danger by shaking their smartphone. The app can track the location of the user, record video and audio and send an alert to the user’s emergency contacts.

Read more www.telegraph.co.uk

Do you have a passcode set on your iPhone? Does it give you a warm fuzzy feeling that your data is securely locked away from prying eyes? Think again.

Technology available to law enforcement officials by Swedish firm Micro Systemation can be used by to hack into the handset and bypass the four-digit passcode in less than two minutes.

Read more www.zdnet.com

Schmidt, who advises President Barack Obama on cybersecurity issues, talked to ZDNet UK against a background of growing staff use of their own laptops and smartphones for work. This so-called ‘consumerisation of IT’ is leaving IT managers to deal with new openings for attack, and raises concerns about data loss and access control.

Read more www.zdnet.co.uk

Amid extra scrutiny from Congress around privacy issues, Apple has started rejecting apps that access UDIDs, or identification numbers that are unique to every iPhone and iPad, this week.

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Thinking of selling your smartphone or laptop computer? If you have a BlackBerry or an iPhone, go right ahead. If you were planning to sell an Android phone or a computer running Windows XP, however, you may want to think again, McAfee identify theft expert Robert Siciliano says.

Read more www.mercurynews.com

A hole in Apple’s mobile Safari can be exploited to display a different URL in the address field than the Web site being viewed in the browser.

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Apple seems to have more focus on the security related issues in its latest iOS 5.1 firmware update with fixes for as much as 81 security flaws in the latest mobile operating system. The firmware update, which was released by Apple last week, contains a number of improvements and bug fixes that include the one affecting battery life on devices running iOS 5.

Read more www.ibtimes.com

After a user allows an application on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to have access to location information, the app can copy the user’s entire photo library without any further notification or warning, according to app developers.

Read more www.bostonglobe.com

Don’t bet on the new agreement between the State of California, Apple, Google and others to protect information on your iPhone from data-snooping third-party apps such as the social networking service Path. If you really want to protect your data, there’s only one way to do it: jailbreak your iPhone.

Read more www.pcworld.com

Most of us are desperately waiting to unlock their iPhone 4S. There has not been any software unlock as yet. But we do have hardware unlock like TPSIM interposer, but it’s not confirmed yet whether it really works. Well now we have another such SIM interposer which claims to unlock iPhone 4S and its called R-SIM.

Read more www.gizmoville.com

Cybercriminals are using a so-called “new iPhone” as the latest lure in an old scam to get the personal data of Internet users.

Security firm Sophos noted several instances of people getting a message that Apple is looking for “testers” for a supposed upcoming iPhone 5.

Read more www.gmanetwork.com

Apple moved to stem a privacy controversy over iPhone apps accessing users’ address books without permission and sending the private data to other computers.
The company will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek ‘explicit approval’  before accessing users’ address book data. 

Read more www.dailymail.co.uk

I’m glad Apple made the Find My iPhone feature available for free to all iOS devices. It definitely gives me peace of mind knowing if my phone is lost or stolen I can easily find it using this handy tool, but in today’s age where everyone and their mother has an iPhone (at least my mother does), wouldn’t potential iPhone thieves wise-up to the iPhone constantly reporting its location to its true owner?

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The iPhone 4S has been available for about two months, yet it has no jailbreak. The iPad 2 has been available for the better part of a year and it can only be jailbroken on an ancient version of iOS 4 (4.3.3). It’s dark times for the jailbreak community, but there may be hope. The hacker who may have the best chances of cracking the iPhone 4S’s defenses says he is making progress.

Read more www.geek.com/

My iPhone was stolen. I have Find My iPhone but it says “unable to locate.” I talked to AT&T, and they said if the battery is dead, it won’t work. What do I do?

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