WhatsApp users are being urged to change a single privacy setting after researchers uncovered a serious hacking flaw that abuses group chats to plant malicious files on phones. The issue centers on ...

Many popular apps collect far more personal data than they need to work. These 20 apps quietly gather your photos, location, ...

In a private hotel room during CES 2026, I got hands-on time with its next smartphone, the MC03, which keeps data private and ...

Generative artificial intelligence apps drove mobile download growth during 2025, and for the first time, non-game apps surpassed game apps in total revenue derived from in-app purchases, according to ...

AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built. Sybil uses a mix of different AI models—as well as a few ...

Despite being a vast repository of personal information, smartphones used to have little by way of security. That has thankfully changed, but companies like Cellebrite offer law enforcement tools that ...

I suppose it's no real surprise that state-to-state cyber warfare is ongoing—probably every minute of every day—but for us regular folk it can be disconcerting to be reminded of it. And the very ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the Librephone project with the objective of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. It’s a strategic shift for the organization ...

Some T-Mobile subscribers have received letters in the mail purporting to be from the carrier and accusing them of browsing “unethical” websites. The letters don’t appear to be part of any obvious ...

Mitchell tells police about potentially over 4 million codes breached at assessor's office affecting citizens and their personal information Police report shows that Mitchell tells officer that the ...

A team of suspected Chinese hackers has infiltrated US software developers and law firms in a sophisticated campaign to collect intelligence that could help Beijing in its ongoing trade fight with ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement arm Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has signed a contract worth $3 million with Magnet Forensics, a company that makes a ...