Originally designed as consumer devices, smartphones have become vital elements of both our personal and professional lives. Unfortunately, as sources and repositories of our most sensitive data, smartphones have quickly become a primary attack surface for hackers, cybercriminals and foreign spies.
A glitch in Apple's FaceTime app let users hear—and see—the other person even if the recipient never accepted the call.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Jan 30, 2019
Originally designed as consumer devices, smartphones have become vital elements of both our personal and professional lives.
Several weather apps have been found to harvest and use data from its users.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Jan 08, 2019
A new report from the New York Times details how personal and invasive smartphone location data can get.
- By Jessica Davis
- Dec 13, 2018
Encryption apps are only as secure as you make them.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Oct 22, 2018
Facebook's WhatsApp says it has fixed a video call security bug that let hackers hijack accounts.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Oct 12, 2018
Currently, Google Account users grant an app a lot of permissions to access their Google Account data in one fell swoop. After the changes are implemented, consumers will be able to grant or deny each permission individually.
- By Jessica Davis
- Oct 10, 2018
Americans are part of a FEMA alert notice
- By Sulayman Brown, Thomas Crane
- Oct 05, 2018
iOS 12 has several new security features that will allow your device to be more secure.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Sep 20, 2018
Simply visiting a website built by a security researcher will crash and restart your iPhone.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Sep 18, 2018
Study finds the growth of smartphone payments will increase the use of biometric security measures on mobile devices.
A Bluetooth vulnerability has the potential to allow a nearby hacker to gain unauthorized access to a device.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Jul 26, 2018
The modern workplace is increasingly mobile. The prevalence of secure mobile internet and emphasis on face-to-face collaboration has seen corporations increasingly emphasize remote work for their employees.
- By Annie Asrari
- Jul 11, 2018
One key to improving cardless ATM acceptance among consumers is to build trust and comfort by ensuring that best-in-class security measures are in place. Given the right security and layers of defense, the cardless ATM process can be secure.
- By Michael Lynch
- Apr 16, 2018
Users are downloading their Facebook data to see just how much Facebook is recording.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Mar 27, 2018
Google released its fourth annual review for Android security. Here are the highlights.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Mar 16, 2018
One of the ten attacks can create "artificial choas" by sending a fake emergency alert to cell phone users.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Mar 06, 2018
Video from the school's surveillance system has helped police put together a timeline of events on the day of the shooting.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Feb 16, 2018
Consumer Report says its testing found that Roku devices and Samsung Smart TVs have security flaws that make them vulnerabilities to hackers.
- By Sydny Shepard
- Feb 09, 2018