Square’s credit card reader for iOS/Android devices is pretty awesome – it lets anybody quickly and easily start taking credit payments. But according to Douglass Bergeron, the CEO of competing company Verifone, the device itself isn’t hardware-encrypted, meaning anyone could write an app that strips unprotected info from your card. More »
Twitter was going nuts this morning with a fresh exploit that had people inadvertently retweeting spam links left and right, but thankfully, Twitter was quick to patch things up. And, as it happens, their fix didn’t just fix things, it improved them: the patch brought Reply to All and Auto-Complete features to the recently revamped Twitter.com. I’ll take it! [TechCrunch]
Mere hours after iOS 4.1 became available, an iPhone Dev-Team user Pod2g found a bootrom exploit, meaning that the new update is indeed jailbreakable. However, this one differs – and could cause Apple a lot of pain. More »
We’ve discussed the exploit affecting iOS devices and that it should theoretically be a simple fix, but now Apple has gone on record and said that it has a solution already: More »
The web’s full of vulnerabilities, but this exploit, which allows code to quietly yank your Mac’s Address Book with Safari’s AutoFill, is bad enough that you should probably just stop what you’re doing and disable it, just to be safe. More »