Monthly Archives: October 2021

Google kills plans to offer bank accounts through Google Pay

By news@appleinsider.com (AppleInsider Staff) Google has decided not to move forward with plans to offer mobile-first bank accounts to Google Pay users, an initiative that would have helped solidify the tech giant’s position as a serious finance market player.Dubbed Plex, nee Cache, the system was designed to present Google Pay digital wallet users access to augmented checking and savings accounts from a number of major financial institutions including Citigroup. Accounts were expected to arrive without monthly fees, overdraft charges or minimum balance requirements.First unveiled in 2019 as a response to technologies like …

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Apple fails to patch publicly disclosed zero-day flaws with iOS 15.0.1

By news@appleinsider.com (Mikey Campbell) Apple pushed out a point update for iOS 15 on Friday, but the release appears to be directed mainly at usability issues as three zero-day vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed last week have gone unpatched.In September, security researcher Denis Tokarev, better known by his pseudonym illusionofcha0s, alleged Apple ignored multiple reports pertaining to newly discovered zero-day vulnerabilities present in iOS, the company’s flagship mobile operating system. Tokarev in a blog post said he reported four flaws to Apple between March 10 and May 4, and while one issue was patched in iOS 14.7, the other three remain active.The security researcher on Friday took to Twitter to report that the three …

Source:: Apple Insider