The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.

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Crime doesn’t pay, even if you have the audacity to try to sell your employer its own, free software and personal data on your own colleagues.

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US carriers haven’t been doing enough to block robocalls voluntarily. The Federal Communications Commission’s response? Fine – we’ll make you.

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If you lose someone’s data because of a configuration blunder that lets crooks in without any actual hacking… is that a “breach” or not?

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How long do Android devices continue to receive security updates after they’re purchased? The answer is: barely two years.

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Microsoft has finally clarified how users can fix a Windows security measure that has been causing hardware problems: turn it off.

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The US government is tightening its rules around the registration of government web domains to stop fraudsters impersonating government sites.

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Cybercriminals compromise over a million Microsoft enterprise accounts each month as too few customers use multi-factor authentication.

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From an ultrasonic attack on Siri and Google Assistant to the guy who hacked back at tech support scammers – and everything in between.

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To celebrate International Women’s Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode.

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