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Learning iOS Security

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Learning iOS Security

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Privacy-related concerns


Just as earlier when we discussed Apple Pay, you may find it odd to see a section on privacy, but as we said, these days with identity theft and other ways customers can leak data through social engineering, the concerns for organizations are more pressing. Practically speaking, it's just a lot of overhead when directory harvest attacks catch the less-astute employees who fall for tricks that cause them to hand over their credentials, and then administrators need to go through the process of locking them out and fixing their mailboxes.

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Administrative overhead is the least of the concerns for larger, well-known internet companies that would be very embarrassed, at the very least, if their employees were phished or were clumsy with their credentials. It became public that one company in particular had deployed a plug-in to the web browser that they developed whose purpose was to detect when network credentials were being entered in an insecure or bogus form, thereby...