Mobile VPN and Tor router can tether to public Wi-Fi—and charge your phone. Over the past year, there has been a burst of crowd-funded efforts to provide simple, inexpensive privacyRead More →
Apple is traditionally mum on some details of its devices’ hardware, preferring to talk about how “B is X times faster than A” than raw numbers. It’s partly a smartRead More →
Infected owners must choose between paying $500 and performing factory reset. Malicious apps that disable Android phones until owners pay a hefty ransom are growing increasingly malevolent and sophisticated asRead More →
Joshua Drake, the researcher who found the so-called Stagefright vulnerability in Android, today released exploit code to the public, which he hopes will be used to test systems’ exposure toRead More →
The Android.Trojan.MKero.A malware is making a comeback in Androidland, and this time around, hackers found a method to bundle it with legitimate apps, capable of bypassing Google’s Bouncer app scanningRead More →
WhatsApp Web is a web-based extension of the WhatsApp application on your phone. The web application mirrors all messages sent and received, and fully synchronize your phone and your desktopRead More →
A new strain of Android ransomware disguised as a video player app uses a means of communication unseen in other similar malware. Most of the victims are in the UnitedRead More →
A newly discovered malware family that preys on jailbroken iPhones has collected login credentials for more than 225,000 Apple accounts, making it one of the largest Apple account compromises toRead More →
Police suspect two suicides are related to the release of information stolen from the relationship-cheating website. Amid reports that the Ashley Madison security breach may have led to suicides andRead More →
