Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…
Tag: privacy
Don’t fall for the Safari Autofill phishing scheme
Warning: It’s possible you may be sharing more information than you think when you use AutoFill…
U.S. FTC sues D-Link for failure to secure webcams, routers from online attacks
D-Link is under fire from the Federal Trade Commission for not doing enough to secure…
What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong
Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….
Apple’s smartest moves of 2016
Apple pissed off a lot of people in 2016. In hindsight, some of Cupertino’s moves look clumsy, and others seem truly clueless…
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…
Yahoo discloses ‘largest hack of all time,’ says hackers stole data from over one billion users
Yahoo said it is forcing all affected users to change their passwords and is invalidating unencrypted security questions…
New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data
Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…
Find out what your web browser is telling websites about you
our web browser holds a lot of information about you, and this information is available…
The cost of free: More than one million Google Android devices hit by malware
More than one million Google accounts have been breached by malware that infiltrated older Android devices…
One in four Wi-Fi hotspots is a security nightmare
A quarter of the world’s Wi-Fi networks are so insecure that the only thing stopping hackers…
President Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions could restart the encryption fight
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump today named Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his choice for attorney general…
Under President Trump, Obama ally Google may face policy setbacks, including roll back of so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules
During Obama’s presidency, more than 250 people moved between jobs at Google or related firms and the federal government, national political campaigns and Congress…
Google’s Eric Schmidt wore staff badge at Hillary Clinton’s ‘victory’ party
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Inc., was spotted at Hillary Clinton’s ‘victory’ party last Tuesday wearing a staff badge…
Secret backdoor in U.S. Android phones sent location, text, contact data to China
The preinstalled software in some Android phones monitors where users go, whom they talk to and what they write in text messages and sends that data to China…
President-elect Trump’s Android phone could be a national security crisis
If Trump is indeed using an Android device, he’s using a phone that the cybersecurity world broadly regards as significantly less secure than Apple’s iPhone…
WikiLeaks emails show extremely close relationship between Clinton campaign and Google’s Eric Schmidt
The emails between Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook show that Schmidt met with Podesta…
Apple Store employees fired for sharing ‘intimate’ photos of female customers, co-workers and rating their appearances
Four male employees have been fired from the Apple Store location when it was discovered that they had engaged in a female-rating game…
Google to try to overcome Pixel phones’ myriad weaknesses with massive advertising blitz
Google’s new ‘Pixel’ smartphone is off to a fast marketing start with $3.2 million in television ads…
FBI wants to get into locked Apple iPhone of Minnesota Islamic terrorist Dahir Adan
When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter…
Google’s slow, shaky, underpowered, overpriced Pixel XL cannot compete with Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus
Google’s latest effort to show off its vision for ‘Pure Android’ hardware costs the same as Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus…
Travelers: Keep your data secure by using a virtual private network
Even when your goal is to get away from it all, sometimes necessity requires that you stay in touch…
Think Apple’s iPhone is expensive? Take a look at the price tags on Google’s slow Pixel and Pixel XL phones
For years the Android fanboy argument has been that the iPhone is too expensive and that Android offers…
British PM Theresa May launches thinly veiled attacks on Apple and Facebook
Theresa May launched a thinly veiled attack on Apple and Facebook…
Yahoo secretly scanned all customer emails for FBI, NSA, sources say
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails…
Android malware that can infiltrate corporate networks is spreading rapidly
An Android malware is spreading across app stores, including Google Play, and has the capability of stealing sensitive files from corporate networks…
Google reportedly announcing new ‘Andromeda’ OS and new ‘Pixel 3’ laptop next week
Two independent and reliable sources have confirmed to us that Google is planning a new Pixel laptop to showcase Google’s ‘Andromeda’ operating system…
Edward Snowden: No matter what, do not use Google’s new Allo messenger app
Google has received much criticism for changes it made to Allo upon its release…
Yahoo confirms data breach of at least 500 million user accounts
A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account info…
Yahoo expected to confirm massive data breach, impacting several hundreds of millions of users
Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its service, according to several sources…
Hardware hack bypasses iPhone passcode security
The work contradicts a claim made by the FBI earlier this year that this approach would not work….
Dropbox responds to Mac ‘security risk’ accusations
Dropbox has said it needs to do a ‘better job’ of communicating its OS X integration…
Apple backs Microsoft in battle against U.S. government over ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ searches
Apple Inc., Google and Amazon.com Inc. were among the tech leaders that rallied behind Microsoft Corp…
Google to pay $5.5 million for sneaking around Apple’s privacy settings to collect user data
Perhaps if Google had taken its own ‘don’t be evil’ motto to heart…
After calling for less security in Apple iPhone case, feckless FBI calls for more security as two state voter databases hacked
The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases…
Inept Microsoft demonstrates just how right Apple was to stand up to U.S. government overreach
I wrote an opinion piece predating the San Bernardino shootings on why Apple was right to stand firm…
Bungling Microsoft singlehandedly proves that ‘backdoors’ are a stupid idea
Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed…
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…
FBI Director Comey calls for national talk over encryption vs. safety
The FBI’s director said Friday the agency is collecting data to present next year in hopes…
How to use Optimized Storage in macOS Sierra
Apple’s laptops rely on flash storage, and prices really shoot up if you want more local storage…
More than 60 percent of Windows sufferers would upgrade to Apple’s Mac for more privacy
Concerns over Windows 10 and the amount of data it collects via the Windows Store could prompt sufferers to upgrade to Mac
Apple security guru to give ‘’unprecedented’ talk on iOS 10 security at BlackHat
At the annual BlackHat USA 2016 security conference next week in Las Vegas, Apple security guru…
