Apple had long denied that it had purchased compromised servers manufactured in China that would have made it a victim to government surveillance after Bloomberg Businessweek broke the story, and now CEO Tim Cook is demanding the ...
In early October, Bloomberg published a bombshell article uncovering an extraordinary hardware hacking effort by state-sponsored Chinese agents. “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies” details s...
Face ID. Fingerprint scanners. Voice recognition. When it comes to biometrics, there a whole lot of means for checking a person’s identity in a way that’s far more personalized than a four-digit security code or password. Now ...
Facebook’s bad year seems to keep getting worse. Brian Wieser doesn’t expect it to improve anytime soon, and thinks that’s a good reason to sell the company’s stock. “We continue to see these issues a...
Facebook can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of 2016. During the 2016 US presidential election, the social network was wildly abused by Russian propagandists, who spread fake news and misinformation on a massive scale — se...
Apple on Wednesday unveiled a revamped privacy website to educate users on how the company handles the personal information that it collects. The website covers how your data is protected, who can access it, and iOS and Mac featur...
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Facebook recently announced it would delete a Russian firm’s accounts over alleged data scraping and take down a series of accounts that were said to be focused on entertainment but were instead tied ...
Maybe Hillary Clinton had the right idea. The idea of a personal email server may be forever associated with Clinton’s infamous email woes, but the technology — which takes email out of the cloud services that most of us u...
It’s been four years since Facebook ditched the latter part of its “Move Fast and Break Things” motto, but we’re still uncovering its consequences and experiencing its aftermath. (In case you’re curio...
Card Factory, a popular UK-based greeting card business, stores some of its customers’ data in an insecure way, letting anyone access their photos with an incredibly simple URL trick. The site was notified about the issue ...