iOS security

Apple’s head of security Ivan Krstic announced last year at the Black Hat security conference that the company would give its most-trusted researchers ‘Dev Device’ iPhones to find and report security vulnerabilities that Apple can fix and today, it has started loaning these special devices to skilled and vetted researchers (via TechCrunch). Under its iOS...

Apple has today issued a press release in response to recent claims by Google’s Project Zero security research team concerning security vulnerabilities in iOS, stating that Google deliberately created "the false impression of mass exploitation,” even though “this was never the case.” Apple notes that the flaws highlighted by Google were never “broad-based” and instead...

Ivan Krstic, head of Apple Security Engineering and Architecture, will take to the stage at this year's Black Hat USA conference to discuss three iOS security mechanisms in "unprecedented technical detail". According to the details shared by Apple, on August 4 in Las Vegas Krstic will discuss "the cryptographic design and implementation of our novel...