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Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese...

The most serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's 8800 Series IP Phones could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to conduct a cross-site request forgery attack or write arbitrary files to the filesystem.

Apps in the Google Play Store purport to upgrade your phone to Android 9.0 Pie, but an app cannot perform that task.

Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. They stink because most of us have so much invested in these digits that they've become de facto identities. At the same time, when you lose...

Google is making G Suite accounts more secure by allowing administrators to remove phone-based 2-step verification (2-SV) from the available multi-factor verification options. read more

Devs may have been duped into using dodgy SDK Android adware has managed to find its way into as many as 150 million devices – after it was stashed inside a large number of those bizarre viral...

We've heard this tale before. This time, it was mentioned by a congressional aide. Also, the NSA released Ghidra, a free reverse-engineering tool.

But really it's just the start of the latest surveillance chess game Special report The NSA may kill off a controversial mass surveillance program of Americans that was exposed by Edward Snowden,...

Facebook admits it's using numbers supplied for 2FA for more than security, and you can't turn it off.

Just don't lose your hardware keys RSA At 2004's RSA Conference, then Microsoft chairman Bill Gates predicted the death of the password because passwords have problems and people are bad at...