New Apple Spyware Warning—Check This iPhone Setting Now

It says something for Apple’s reputation that a new warning of malicious App Store apps caused such a furor. As I reported Tuesday, iPhone apps were caught stealing photos and sending them back to their handlers. Kaspersky, which raised the spyware alarm, noted “this was the first time a stealer had been found in Apple’s App Store.”

I received the worst iPhone text scam ever. Thanks, Apple

Last month, we covered a new SMS phishing scam specifically targeting iPhone users. The idea behind the scheme is to trick the recipient into replying to a text in order to activate a link, which would then be clicked, either purposefully or inadvertently, and activate a piece of malware.