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Pay for gas on ExxonMobil app with Apple Pay

 You can now use Apple Pay to buy gas at 6,000 ExxonMobil locations across the U.S. The transactions can be made through the free Speedpass app, meaning that customers won’t have to get out of the car to fill their … Continue reading

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Apple vs FBI: Lavabit warns FBI’s “extraordinary” action may drive US businesses offshore

 Lavabit, the former encrypted email provider that shut down its service in 2013 after the FBI demanded its encryption keys, has filed an amicus brief in support of Apple in its legal battle with the agency. Read More

Stars of Air Traffic Management Shine in Madrid

Dateline City: Madrid Multimedia Contacts Economics & Country Risk; Aerospace, Defense & Security; TechnologyAmanda Russo, +44 208 276 4727amanda.russo@ihs.comor All IndustriesIHS Media Relations, +1 303 305 8021press@ihs.com IHS Jane’s rewarded collaborative and innovative efforts to improve air traffic management in … Continue reading

Apple-FBI Feud Puts Spotlight on Mobile Device Security

Dateline City: CAMPBELL, Calif. Multimedia All Other Multimedia: 1Q16-Optical-Network-Hardware-Market-Tracker-Revenue-Share-Chart.jpg (317.48 KB) Contacts All IndustriesIHS Media Relations, +1 303 305 8021press@ihs.comor TechnologyLee Graham, +1 212 333 4983lee.graham@ihs.com CAMPBELL, Calif. (March 7, 2016) – IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) conducted in-depth interviews with … Continue reading

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Apple has shut down the first fully-functional Mac OS X ransomware

 Apple has shut down what appears to have been the first, fully-functional ransomware targeting Mac computers. This particular form of cyber threat involves malware that encrypts the data on your personal computer so you can no longer access it. Afterwards, the … Continue reading

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein speaks during a press conference at the United Nations offices on February 1, 2016 in Geneva.
Al Hussein met the media few days after his office revealed new allegations of child sexual abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. / AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI        (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)

FBI forcing Apple to weaken iOS security could endanger lives, warns UN

 The legal tussle between Apple and the FBI over a locked iPhone, and the security weakening measures the security services want the iOS maker to take to help it extract data on the device, has now attracted comment from the … Continue reading

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 23:  The official seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen on an iPhone's camera screen outside the J. Edgar Hoover headquarters February 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. Last week a federal judge ordered Apple to write software that would allow law enforcement agencies investigating the December 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, to hack into one of the attacker's iPhone. Apple is fighting the order, saying it would create a way for hackers, foreign governments, and other nefarious groups to invade its customers' privacy.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Apple’s best defense against the FBI is the one it can’t share publicly

 To put it briefly and bluntly: The iPhone is already vulnerable to hackers around the world. This is also true of Android and other smart device platforms. Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 23:  The official seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen on an iPhone's camera screen outside the J. Edgar Hoover headquarters February 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. Last week a federal judge ordered Apple to write software that would allow law enforcement agencies investigating the December 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, to hack into one of the attacker's iPhone. Apple is fighting the order, saying it would create a way for hackers, foreign governments, and other nefarious groups to invade its customers' privacy.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

San Bernardino DA claims Syed Farouk’s iPhone may house ‘cyber pathogen’

 On Thursday, the San Bernardino District Attorney speculated that the phone in question may be housing a “dormant cyber pathogen” that threatens the county. The DA’s comment represents the first time that any law enforcement agency has said publicly what … Continue reading

Former Homeland Security secretary and Chairman, Committee of Conscience, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Michael Chertoff speaks at a press conference on the release of a report on the plight of the Yezidi people of northern Iraq, by the Holocaust Memorial Museums Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide on November 12, 2015 at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN        (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Former heads of NSA and Homeland Security unlikely Apple supporters in encryption battle

 At a panel discussion today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and Homeland Security threw their support behind encryption technologies. Michael Chertoff, who was the head of Homeland … Continue reading

Carrier VoIP and IMS Market Has Best Year Ever in 2015

Dateline City: CAMPBELL, Calif. Multimedia All Other Multimedia: 2016-IHS-Infonetics-1Q16-Service-Provider-VoIP-IMS-Revenue-Share-Chart.jpg (231.11 KB) Contacts All IndustriesIHS Media Relations, +1 303 305 8021press@ihs.com Diane Myers IHS Inc. +1 408 583 3391 diane.myers@ihs.com CAMPBELL, Calif. (March 4, 2016) – Riding the voice over LTE … Continue reading