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Security: Supply Chain Security Speculation, 'Digital Shadows' and Apple’s New 'Security' Features

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 6th of October 2018 04:13:58 PM Filed under

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Supply Chain Security Speculation

Before the wild speculation though, it must be mentioned that the story is short on evidence and high on flat out denials.
This dark web market is dedicated to compromising your emails

According to research by security company Digital Shadows for as little as $150, dark web sellers are offering to hack into whichever corporate email account the user wants to gain access to -- with many promising access within a week. In some instances, the sellers state they'll only take the payment after they've proved the target has been compromised.
Apple’s New Security Features Won’t Let You Repair the MacBook Pro or iMac Pro

This is according to a document that was distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers last month, and obtained by MacRumors and Motherboard yesterday. Apple has introduced a new software lock that will make your computer “inoperative” unless Apple’s proprietary system configuration (diagnostics) software has been run.

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