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The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service can find the whereabouts of...

The system requires that you have legal authority to use it, but doesn't check

What should be secret AWS and API keys were (un)secured with the default password credentials: "admin" as the name, "admin" for a password.

"Text bomb, text bomb, WhatsApp text bomb, you can crash my application when I want to get things done."

In a change possibly targeted at law enforcement, Apple is changing iOS to disable the USB port after a device is idle for seven days, and only a user unlock can reverse it.

Compared to 151 million in 2016, perhaps due to dupes rather than spy boom The United States’ Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its annual Intelligence Community...

Personnel on US military bases can no longer buy phones and other gear manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE, after the Pentagon said the devices pose an "unacceptable" security risk....

For the very first time, security researchers have discovered an effective way to exploit a four-year-old hacking technique called Rowhammer to hijack an Android phone remotely. Dubbed GLitch, the...

Florida-based phone maker BLU is facing an FTC complaint over allegations it shared detailed personal user data with a third-party firm that included full text messages, call logs and contact lists.

A team of researchers has shown how malicious actors could leverage graphics processing units (GPUs) to launch Rowhammer attacks remotely against Android smartphones. read more