there is an even bigger threat to consumers than ransomware: social engineering.

Rumor has it that the patent could result in an actual feature to be included in the upcoming iPhone 7, and possibly future releases of the iPad Pro, with a strong possibility that Apple might use the technology to add facial recognition as a way to unlock devices, aside from Touch-ID, in a similar way as Intel RealSense 3D cameras do with Windows Hello.

Four years ago, James Newman, an engineer from Cambridge (UK), began working on a computer processor the size of a living room, in which one could literally walk in, and watch as the processor executes commands, with a live feed provided by LED lights, which tells observers what components of the CPU are active, in real time.

If evidence of ransomware targeting Mac users weren’t bad enough, a new piece of malware was recently added to a growing list of cyber threats that seem to have a specific focus on Mac OS X.