Never give your password to someone over the phone. If someone calls you and asks for your password while saying they are from the Help Desk or Tech Support team, it is an attacker attempting to gain access to your…

The latest fake-news wrinkle: Insiders say it will hand-pick news from favored media partners, including Snapchat, in an upcoming feature called Collections.

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That “short code” on the back of your credit card does make things harder for cybercrooks – but perhaps not that much harder.

Google’s invisible reCAPTCHA will decide based on tracking your moves and clicks if you’re a human or a bot

Former employee’s response to being fired is a lesson for other companies about the power of their sysadmins

The smileworthy technology story of the week has a car thief suspect remotely locked inside a stolen car. Except we’re calling it busted.

A story about users mistaking it for a Facebook extension was flagged as fake news: ‘Meta’, said the developer

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Google engineers are working on an improved version of the reCAPTCHA system that uses a computer algorithm to distinguish between automated bots and real humans, and requires no user interaction at all….

Google is rolling out Android 7.1.1 for Pixel and Nexus smartphones, including the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One). You can download it over-the-air when…