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Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to

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2025-12-302021-05-08 by Dan Goodin
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Getty Images reader comments 75 with 43 posters participating Share this story In September 2015, Apple managers had a dilemma on their hands: should, or should they not, notify 128 million iPhone users of what remains the worst mass iOS … Read more

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Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

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2025-12-302021-04-19 by Dan Goodin
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reader comments 263 with 169 posters participating Share this story Microsoft is finally catching on to a maxim that security experts have almost universally accepted for years: periodic password changes are likely to do more harm than good. In a … Read more

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“Expert” hackers used 11 zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users

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2025-12-302021-03-19 by Dan Goodin
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reader comments 51 with 41 posters participating Share this story A team of advanced hackers exploited no fewer than 11 zeroday vulnerabilities in a nine-month campaign that used compromised websites to infect fully patched devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, … Read more

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