{"id":556,"date":"2017-10-06T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=556"},"modified":"2017-10-06T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:43:10","slug":"apple-allows-uber-to-use-a-powerful-feature-that-lets-it-record-iphone-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/apple-allows-uber-to-use-a-powerful-feature-that-lets-it-record-iphone-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Allows Uber to Use a Powerful Feature that Lets it Record iPhone Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could possibly go wrong when your privacy and phone are given &#8220;selectively&#8221; without your knowledge or ability to intervene?\u00a0 What happens when Uber is hijacked?\u00a0 Or Uber uses this access unscrupulously?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Security researcher Will Strafach recently revealed that Apple selectively grants (what&#8217;s known as an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/content\/documentation\/Miscellaneous\/Reference\/EntitlementKeyReference\/Chapters\/AboutEntitlements.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">entitlement<\/a>&#8220;) Uber a powerful ability to use the newly introduced screen-recording API with intent to improve the performance of the Uber app on Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<p>The screen-recording API allows the Uber app to record user&#8217;s screen information even when the app is closed, giving Uber access to all the personal information passing through an iPhone screen.<\/p>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s more?\u00a0<\/b>The company&#8217;s access to such permission could make this data vulnerable to hackers if they, somehow, able to hijack Uber&#8217;s software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/10\/uber-screen-record-iphone.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&amp;_m=3n.009a.1595.qm0ao08yu9.ykt\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/10\/uber-screen-record-iphone.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&amp;_m=3n.009a.1595.qm0ao08yu9.ykt\">Apple Allows Uber to Use a Powerful Feature that Lets it Record iPhone Screen<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could possibly go wrong when your privacy and phone are given &#8220;selectively&#8221; without your knowledge or ability to intervene?\u00a0 What happens when Uber is hijacked?\u00a0 Or Uber uses this access unscrupulously? Security researcher Will Strafach recently revealed that Apple selectively grants (what&#8217;s known as an &#8220;entitlement&#8220;) Uber a powerful ability to use the newly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-privacy","category-security-2","category-smart-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}