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Fake messenger steals $58,000 worth of iPhones from NYC Apple Store
The NYPD is asking for help identifying a man who passed himself off as a messenger…
O.J. Simpson looks forward to release, getting new Apple iPhone
O.J. Simpson’s attorney says he expects the former football star and actor to be released from a Nevada prison…
Apple’s ‘cop button’ won’t keep your iPhone safe from the police
An upcoming feature in iOS 11 might let you disable Touch ID so your device can’t be unlocked…
How to stop robocalls from flooding your iPhone
An unfamiliar number appears on your cellphone. It’s from your area code, so you answer it…
Crazy thieves steal iPhones from moving truck
The men are accused of stealing iPhones worth 500,000 euros…
Should America’s tech giants be broken up? Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook may be contributing to the U.S. economy’s most persistent ailments
Google is as close to a monopoly as the Bell telephone system was in 1956…
Video shows chaotic scene inside Apple Store Crossgates as shots are fired in mall
New surveillance video shows the chaotic and terrifying scene inside an Apple store as gunfire…
European Union hits Google with record $2.73 billion fine for abusing internet search monopoly
The penalty is the biggest ever competition fine from the European Commission, doubling the previous record…
Saddened Apple CEO Tim Cook offers prayers after nut job opens fire on Republican congressional baseball team
The man suspected of opening fire on Republican members of the congressional baseball team early Wednesday…
20 Apple employees caught selling customer data in China
Apple may pride itself on offering its customers privacy and promising to protect their data…
Florida man sentenced to 180 days in jail for not divulging his iPhone passcode
Hollywood man must serve 180 days in jail for refusing to give up his iPhone password to police…
Florida judge orders reality TV actress to unlock Apple iPhone in ‘sextortion’ case
A reality TV actress accused in an extortion case involving sex videos must give up her iPhone password…
Miami sextortion case asks if a suspect can be forced to hand over Apple iPhone password
Next week, a local judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is expected to issue a key ruling…
Teenage cyber hacker Adam Mudd jailed for global attacks
A computer hacker has been jailed for two years for masterminding global online attacks…
Thief dresses up as Target worker, steals $40,000 worth of iPhones; still at large (security camera images)
Detectives in Virginia are looking for a woman who disguised herself as a Target employee…
Fraudster who made millions illegally shipping Apple products to the Middle East sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison
A Seattle-area fraudster who made millions illegally shipping Apple products to the Middle East…
How to protect your Apple iCloud account from hackers
There’s more than enough reason to exercise caution…
How to protect your iCloud account, as some hacked credentials confirmed valid
While the available evidence suggests that hackers have not gained direct access to more than 600 million…
Prosecutors extracting data from more than 100 locked phones seized during Inauguration Day arrests
Prosecutors are extracting data from more than 100 locked cell phones seized during arrests…
Apple: ‘Turkish Crime Family’ hackers did not breach iCloud, usernames and passwords likely obtained from compromised third-parties
Apple is reassuring customers that its systems have not been breached while a hacker, or hackers…
Hackers threaten to wipe millions of iPhones and iCloud accounts if Apple doesn’t pay up by April 7th
A hacker or group of hackers is apparently trying to extort Apple over alleged access to a large cache of iCloud…
Apple MacBook Pro takes a bullet for man, saves his life at Fort Lauderdale airport shooting
A man’s Macbook Pro laptop saved his life when a bullet fired by a maniac…
Amazon Echo murder case spotlights question of what ‘always on’ actually means
Some people have wondered if smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo devices, or its closest contender…
Apple finance manager ‘stabbed to death by husband on Christmas Eve’
An Apple finance manager was fatally stabbed by her husband on Christmas Eve at their San Jose home…
Four arrested after vehicle smashes into Palo Alto Apple Store in brazen heist
Police have arrested four suspects after a team of thieves brazenly invaded a Peninsula Apple Store…
Foxconn manager indicted for stealing 5,700 iPhones, worth $1.56 million
A former senior manager at Taiwan’s technology giant Foxconn has been indicted for stealing and selling 5,700 iPhones…
Malware is making ATMs spit cash
Hacks of banks’ centralized systems had made groups of machines issue cash simultaneously…
Google attempts to defend Android in European Commission antitrust case
The Commission is focusing on three potentially illegal practices…
New scam: Student puts $1,762 on iTunes cards to pay IRS
Maggie Passino, 20, received a string of frantic calls on her first day of college that scared her into throwing away $1,762 in savings…
Apple patent application reveals iPhone security feature that records fingerprints of thieves
Being the leading portable devices company in the world, Apple is constantly advancing new security features…
Apple and Netflix customers are being targeted in fake invoice e-mail scam
Apple customers are being targeted in a series of new scams involving invoices containing…
Samsung Pay flaw lets thieves remotely collect credit card credentials
Samsung Pay’s legacy point-of-sale system compatibility mode may be insecure, as a token theft…
New York governor bars sex offenders from playing Pokémon Go
The directive applies to nearly 3,000 Level One, Two, and Three sex offenders currently on parole…
Officials charge six people in attempted fraud at Chicago-area Apple stores
Six people from New York state have been charged in ‘an organized criminal enterprise’ during which fraudulent transactions…
Middle-aged man caught using an Apple Store Mac to peruse porn
A middle-aged man has been caught casually browsing an X-rated website on a public computer….
Pokémon GO could be Apple Watch’s killer app
Thanks to Pikachu and Co., millions of users are willing to overlook the crude interface and repetitive gameplay as they wander…
Pokémon GO helps two U.S. Marines to catch murder suspect
The reality-game-meets-exercise app was instrumental in aiding two Marines to help local police officers…
Stealing iPhones from the Apple Store is easy: Just wear a blue shirt
Last week in New York City, a man entered the SoHo Apple Store wearing what was visually close enough to the Apple employee uniform…
U.S. court: Government doesn’t need warrant to access cellphone records to track location data
When law enforcement asks a company for cellphone records to track location data in an investigation, is that a search under the Fourth Amendment?
‘Jesus’ arrested in Apple store; his cross was blocking aisle
“Jesus” was arrested at a Philadelphia Apple store on a trespassing charge…
Man found dead at Apple headquarters was Edward Mackowiak, age 25
According to reports, the Apple employee found dead at the company’s California headquarters was Edward Mackowiak…
