By this time next year, says Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC wants to see an anti-robocall system on consumers’ phones – or else.

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The manual turns good advice on its head, telling officials to use, reuse and recycle weak passwords.

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Online-note-sharing company Evernote has patched a hole that allowed attackers to infect notes shared via its service.

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A WhatsApp chain letter is warning of a malware-packing video called “martinelli”, and selling its lie with a grain of truth.

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Android’s November security bulletin is here and there’s more to patch, and more urgency about applying them.

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Facebook’s had a patent approved for a new way to sniff out potential friends, based on your phone and patterns of movement.

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Two US biometric companies have partnered to research a private, nationwide biometrics system.

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Android apps in the “Family” category had a surprisingly high number of trackers embedded in them.

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The US government is reeling from a catastrophic, years-long intelligence failure that compromised its internet-based covert communications.

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Stolen data from the 81,000 accounts that appeared to be genuine included intimate exchanges between Facebook users.

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