Dropping your phone is almost a rite of passage. One slip from your pocket, and suddenly you’re staring at a spiderweb of cracks—or worse, a completely black ...

The Justice Department has managed to unlock an iPhone 5c used by the gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last December. The high-profile case ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a crackdown on pirated mobile apps with its first seizure of websites accused of selling copyrighted Android apps without permission. Visitors to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The FBI, currently ...

Trading in cryptocurrency? You might be sitting on a pretty penny in that digital wallet of yours. Feels great, doesn't it? But here's the catch with digital currency: Keeping it secure isn't a walk ...

Security researchers at McAfee have discovered new malware targeting Android users, named SpyAgent. The main aim of this malicious software being the theft of seed phrases that can be used to recover ...

The United States government, as well as US law enforcement agencies, care a lot about iOS and Android encryption. Smartphone data can reveal a lot about terrorists, people who conduct mass shootings, ...

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