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Mobile Safari Vulnerability Discovered In iOS 5.1 – Allows URL Spoofing

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March 23, 2012
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If you are using Mobile Safari on iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch running iOS 5.1, than you should be cautious of a security issue that involves address bar spoofing. The issue was discovered by David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity, and involves “an error within the handling of URLs when using javascript’s window open() method.” This can be exploited by malicious sites to display custom URLs, potentially fooling users into supplying personal information to a malicious website (since the Safari address bar can display a totally different address than the website that is actually being More >

iOS 5 Features List; What Will Apple Think Of Next?

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June 7, 2011
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The next major firmware release for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Apple TV 2G has been unveiled at WWDC 2011. iOS 5 will bring 200+ new features to the iOS devices. The new iOS 5 features include Notifications, Newsstand, and several others. Check out the fill list of the big features below:

iOS 5 Features List Notification Center

The first of the big iOS 5 features is Notifications. Apple is finally getting rid of the annoying popups and replacing it with an Android-like notification center. It resembles Mobile Notifier, the iOS notification jailbreak application. Notifications also More >

Apple Readies “Reading List” Feature For Safari In New Mac OS X Lion

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May 4, 2011
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Apple is playing around with a pretty cool new feature for Safari in Apple’s Mac OS X Lion. The attribute will change things up a bit for bookmarking functionality in the browser. The soon to be official “Reading List” function allows users to save particular pages for review at a later time. Here is how Apple describes the new tool: “Reading List lets you collect webpages and links for you to read later. To add the current page to your Reading List, click Add Page. You can also Shift-click a link to quickly add it to the list. To hide and show Reading List, click the Reading List More >

Charlie Miller Hacks iPhone 4; Wins Pwn2Own 2011 Contest Again

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March 11, 2011
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Charlie Miller, known for exploiting the Safari browser for the past 3 years has managed to rip apart iPhone 4 security today at the Pwn2Own 2011 hacking contest at Vancouver. This is Miller’s forth consecutive win at the Pwn2Own contests.

All the attack required was for the target iPhone to surf to a rigged website. On his first attempt at the drive-by exploit, the iphone browser crashed but once it was relaunched, Miller managed to hijack the entire address book. He partnered with colleague Dion Blazakis to successfully exploit the Apple device using a MobileSafari flaw to swipe the iPhone More >

Apple’s Safari Browser Hacked In 5 Seconds Using MacBook In Pwn2Own Contest

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March 10, 2011
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Apple’s Safari browser has once again been compromised, this time by VUPEN co-founder Chaouki Bekrar in today’s Pwn2Own hacker contest. The vulnerability was demoed on a MacBook which was running a fully patched version of Mac OS X (64-bit) where he was able to launch a calculator on the compromised machine. According to Bekrar, the vulnerability was discovered in WebKit, the open-source browser rendering engine using fuzzers. The team took around two weeks to identify the vulnerability and coding a working exploit for it. Bekrar and his team ended up winning a $15,000 cash prize and an More >

Apple To Merge iTunes And Safari In One App [Rumor]

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January 18, 2011
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Is Apple on the verge of merging two of their biggest applications in the future? The folks over at Three Guys and a Podcast posted a new rumor about iTunes and Safari becoming one application before the year is out. Apple hasn’t been doing well in the battle for web browser supremacy. Currently, Safari doesn’t even have a 5% market share while Google’s relatively  new web browser on the other hand has already surpassed Safari with a 14% market share.

iTunes is currently one of Apple’s biggest moneymakers. With billions of dollars in yearly revenue, it’s currently the world’s largest online More >

Apple To Add AirPlay Video Streaming To Safari & 3rd Party Apps By 2011

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December 2, 2010
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One of the awesome features introduced by Apple in iOS 4.2.1 is AirPlay, with which you can stream video, audio and photos from a iOS devices to the new Apple TV. But, unfortunately, this feature has some limitations – like, can’t stream video from third party apps and even Safari is limited to audio-only. Though, the Jailbreak community were able to make it possible to stream third party apps to the Apple TV, a lot of users would prefer Apple to offer full fledged support to stream third party apps right from the portable iOS device.

But at the same it was disappointing to find out More >

Apple Released Safari 5.0.1; Update Includes New Extentions And Features

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July 28, 2010
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Apple recently turns its attention to software today with a new version of their Safari browser. Safari 5.0.1 has activated Safari extensions, basically HTML5,  CSS3, and Javascript coded add-ons and plug-ins, which can be installed from the Safari Extensions Gallery. Safari 5 made its debut in June, boasting 30% speed over version 4 of the browser and twice the speed of Firefox 3.6. Users also get a new Reader mode, which basically strips out all the extraneous ads, images, and content from a webpage, leaving only the text behind in an easy-to-consume format.

Extensions, meanwhile, each More >

[Speed Test] iPhone 4 Vs iPhone 3GS Vs iPhone 3G Vs iPhone 2G

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July 26, 2010
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One of the many things to look forward to when upgrading to the iPhone 4 from a previous iPhone is improved performance due to a faster processor, more RAM, etc.One of the folks over at Gadgets DNA have discovered a YouTube video made by Mike Hellers who has compared all the four generations of the iPhone to show the performance improvements. In the video below, Mike Hellers and his friend Chris carried out the following tests on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 2G.

  • Load time of iPhone game – Planet Vs Zombies
  • Load time of iPhone app – Google Earth
  • Load time of iPhone – More >

Flash On Your iPad “In A Pinch” Thanks To Artefact

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June 11, 2010
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Despite Steve Job’s personal thoughts on Flash being a dying technology, it is very clear that many people want to use the technology on their iDevices (or at least developers want to find ways to put it there). We recently heard of Smokescreen, a browser plug-in that takes apart the SWF binaries and reassembles them into a format that Apple can read. Taking a slightly different approach, the team at the Artefact Group have been working on a service called Flash In A Pinch. At the moment it is only in a concept stage, a pretty sweet concept at that. How it works is: Flash is rendered on More >

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