iPhone thieves use Spear-Phishing to pick up unlocked pin

iPhone thieves use Spear-Phishing to pick up unlocked pin

Professional-acting international thief gangs have developed a new stitch to be able to resell stolen iPhones as expensive as possible: They try to persuade their victims with professionally upset phishing sites to betray their device pin. As Mac & I reader Michael Kania reports, who runs an IT service, he recently found such a case … Read more

Vigilante against thieves: How to deactivate loudspeakers of trackers like Airtags

Vigilante against thieves: How to deactivate loudspeakers of trackers like Airtags

The potential as theft protection therefore recognized not only private individuals, but also law enforcement officers. In Arvada, a city in the United States, the local police even gave away Airtags to find out car thieves. Similar campaigns were also available in New York and Denver. That was the reading sample of our Heise-Plus article … Read more

Another US city wants to fight car thieves with Airtags

Another US city wants to fight car thieves with Airtags

The use of Apple's Bluetooth and Ultra-Wideband trackers of the Airtag series to combat ownership offenses is increasingly establishing itself in the USA: According to a medium-sized city in Colorado, the metropolis of Denver has now started with its over 700,000 inhabitants, which is in the same state. Action with at least 450 trackers Like … Read more