Microsoft warns of dangers from toll fraud malware on Android devices
Toll fraud malware continues to evolve, Microsoft says. However, there are some ways to keep it off your Android device
Android users are being attacked by...
How to blur your house on Google Street View (and why you should)
A little privacy goes a long way.
Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be...
Spam text messages flood Verizon Wireless phones
Don't click the links!
Have you recently received a text message…from your own phone number?
If so, do not click the link you were sent! You obviously didn't...
Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS’ website reportedly hacked
The homepage showed an anti-war message on Monday.
The website of Russia's state-owned news agency TASS appears to have been hacked on Monday, with an anti-war...
Update now: Apple issues major security patch for iOS
Apple admits bad actors may have been using this vulnerability.
Forgive yourself the déjà vu.
Apple announced Thursday major security updates for both iOS...
Apple just released a bunch of iPhone security updates, and wow
You should really update. Like, now.
Apple's latest iOS brings more than just a dubious Voice Plan to the table.
The company behind the iPhone...
Signal expands encrypted group video calls to 40 people
The messaging app created the new feature while maintaining end-to-end encryption.
Messaging app Signal can now support group video chats with 40 participants — up from five —...
GoDaddy just realized it was hacked months ago
Better late than never.
GoDaddy wants you to know that it's really sorry.
The web-hosting service disclosed Monday that it was the victim...
WhatsApp wants to warn you about messaging scams
Don't fall prey to the scammers.
WhatsApp is launching a new initiative to educate people on how to protect themselves from message-based scams.
Airbnb struggles to recover a stolen domain name from the sneaky thief
A lesson for domain name owners.
Things have not been tilting in Airbnb's favor.
The online vacation rental marketplace Airbnb has recently failed to win...
Robinhood data breach exposes 7 million users’ personal information
You've kinda gotta respect social engineering.
It's incidents like this that keep us doing those annoying security training every year.
Robinhood has announced...
Facebook makes a big show of kinda ending facial recognition
But make no mistake: Facebook's parent company, Meta, is not out of the facial recognition game.
Apply enough pressure, and even Facebook will buckle.
Big Tech lost billions because of Apple’s privacy changes. Boo f-ing hoo.
Turns out, you can put a price on privacy.
Your privacy cost Big Tech money this summer. But don't worry, they still made billions and billions.
Watch hackers Rickroll their entire high school district at once
Never gonna give this senior prank up.
There are senior pranks, and then there's simultaneously rickrolling over 11,000 of your fellow high school students.
This past...
The confused governor says looking at the webpage’s HTML is criminal hacking
Putting on my hacker hoodie and clicking "view source."
Gov. Mike Parson is sick and tired of all these sophisticated, no-good hackers and he's not...