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It was a well-oiled business, with Top Dogs fencing devices, forgers cooking up fake IDs with stolen PII, and runners ripping off phones.

Competition regulators investigated Apple due to concerns that people were needlessly repairing or replacing slow phones.

A new way of tracking mobile users creates a globally unique device fingerprint that browsers and other protections can't stop.

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of...

Cheapskate fandroids get a pass on this one, though Your iPhone can be uniquely fingerprinted by apps and websites in a way that you can never clear. Not by deleting cookies, not by clearing your...

A Massachusetts federal district judge gave cops a warrant to force-unlock iPhones with the suspect's fingers.

Unsealed warrant in Massachusetts adds to growing privacy debate Analysis A US judge gave the cops permission to force people's fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly...

A unique identifier is enabled by default on every iPhone that's shipped, allowing advertisers to follow the phone's activity across the web.

The prototype iPhones are slipping out of Apple's supply chain with disabled security, to the delight of researchers and jailbreakers.

At $100, the old-gen iPhone encryption-cracking tools are a bargain to hackers looking to pick up leftover forensics or police Wi-Fi data.