Apple’s ongoing tussle with the FBI has brought the issues of privacy and security to greater public attention. Now, USMobile has launched Scrambl3, an iOS app enabling high-value targets of…
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook discussed user data security at a meeting on Wednesday with a top Chinese government official in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The meeting comes…
Hundreds of alleged usernames and passwords for online document-sharing site Dropbox were published on Monday on Pastebin, an anonymous information-sharing website. The anonymous user, who claims to have hacked close…
Google said it will start giving websites higher search rankings if they ensure secure connections, keeping its users safe from online attacks and hacks. Google is hoping to nudge developers towards…
Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees, the company acknowledged this week. The same techniques to circumvent…
Ever since it was revealed that the NSA can access people’s computers and tap into private information, alarmed United States citizens have been turning to private clouds for data security. What…
Microsoft’s Windows 8 has been branded a threat to China’s cybersecurity in a state-backed news report. China’s CCTV broadcast a strongly critical story in which experts suggested it was being…
Google has imposed restrictions on where people can get extensions for its Chrome browser. In a blogpost, the search giant said it was now going to allow only extensions hosted…
Dutch police have arrested a 14-year-old girl in Rotterdam after she sent American Airlines a threatening tweet on Sunday. The message became a viral sensation on Twitter after a user…
The researchers fooled the new handset using a mould made out of glue The fingerprint sensor on Samsung’s Galaxy S5 handset has been hacked less than a week after the…
Yahoo has added more layers of security in its effort to shield people’s online lives from government spying and other snooping. The measures announced Wednesday include the completion of a…
Although Seana Mulcahy considers herself tech savvy, she was thrown a bit when her 8-year-old son Logan not once, but twice, ran up charges using apps downloaded from iTunes Store….
As technology becomes more and more advanced, so do the hacking methods that could threaten the software in computers, phones and even cars and airplanes. The U.S. Department of Defense…
AUSTIN Declaring that the U.S. government is “setting fire to the future of the Internet” by spying on Americans and being unaccountable for that, former National Security Agency contractor Edward…
A man whose mother left her iPad to her family in her will says Apple’s security rules are too restrictive. Josh Grant, 26, from London, told BBC Radio 4’s You &…
