Cyber Security

As of Monday, Facebook Graph Search has officially opened its big, omniscient arms to every last check-in, status update, note, and comment you’ve ever posted throughout your entire Facebook career. Which, yes, sounds pretty terrifying, but don’t worry—we’re here to help you cover your tracks. Thankfully, Facebook has given us the tools we need to Continue Reading →

Apple has released iOS 7.0.2 over-the-air for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This is a bug fix release that focuses on rectifying an issue that could allow users to bypass the passcode unlock on the Lock screen. Another fix in this release is to re-add the Greek keyboard options for pass codes. iOS 7.0.2 brings Continue Reading →

Many feel privacy, at least online, may be going the way of the fax machine, the floppy disk and the eight-track player. A recent poll by the Pew Research Center revealed 59 percent of respondents believe it’s impossible to be totally anonymous online, as Mashable reports. Despite the obvious lack of faith in the ability to Continue Reading →

Yahoo will begin offering a new ‘Not My Email’ button this week that gives owners of newly claimed, previously dormant, user names the ability to ‘return’ messages that were not meant for them. This is part of Yahoo’s ongoing efforts to mitigate any potential harm that may come from its recent ‘user name recycle program‘. Continue Reading →

Mailbox, the tidy iOS email app recently purchased by Dropbox, has a pretty wide-open hole that could allow bad actors to hijack your device. And unlike phishing attempts that should probably set off your sketchiness detector, this flaw involves emails that look completely innocuous. As Italian researcher Michele Spagnuolo shows, the Mailbox app will execute Continue Reading →

Remember that dance-party photo you regretted posting online? How about the time you over-shared your feelings about your ex or made that comment about Barack Obama? All forever etched in the annals of the Internet. Well, maybe not – at least if you’re under 18. Legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday will require Continue Reading →

In our recent APK/website teardown, we unearthed Android’s upcoming remote device lock functionality through Google Play Services, and now it has quietly gone live in the Android Device Manager. Just head to the management interface and you’ll have a new Lock button. Click it, and your lost device can be secured instantly. The functionality is Continue Reading →

The passcode can’t die yet. The iPhone 5s’s Touch ID fingerprint security system can be unlocked with your finger even if you’re asleep. That means a jealous lover could hold your phone to your thumb while you slumber and read all your texts, call logs, emails, and more. Apple confirms that a dead thumb won’t Continue Reading →

The New York Police Department has more of a relationship with Apple’s iPhone than merely performing crowd control at and around Apple stores on iPhone launch days like last Friday. A new iPhone model also means a probable uptick in attempts to steal them. And since Friday’s launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c also Continue Reading →

Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared. On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in the West Bank city of Ramallah, sent Forbes a video embedded at the site below, showing how he’s able to make a call to Continue Reading →