One of the biggest (and most evoked) selling points of an Apple Mac has always been their ability to avoid…
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Just 24 hours after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ iPhone was hacked, his data usage apparently increased with 29,000%. Someone was syphoning huge amounts of personal data from his iPhone 10 — but at that stage, no-one knew where it was all going.
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WhatsApp may be expiring for some users, but those folks without worries on that front still have something to worry about. Certain versions of the app are vulnerable to an exploit that installs spyware, developed by Israeli outfit NSO Group according to reports. And the nasty part is the penetration method — WhatsApp can be infected with nothing more than a missed call.
Every day, often multiple times a day, you are invited to click on links sent to you by brands, politicians, friends and strangers. You download apps on your devices. Maybe you use QR codes.
Most of these activities are secure because they come from sources that can be trusted. But sometimes criminals impersonate trustworthy sources to get you to click on a link (or download an app) that contains malware.
What would it mean if you lost all of your personal documents, such as your family photos, research or business…
When malicious software, or malware, attacks, computer scientists and security researchers want to know how the attackers got into what…
Malicious software on popular mobile platforms such as iOS and Android is at best a nuisance and at worst a…
Words like worm, trojan horse and zombie may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but they’re part of the…