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…

Owners of John Deere tractors are the latest group to discover that they can’t do their own repairs thanks to proprietary software that limits fixes to approved outlets – so what does that mean for security?

Bill would prohibit ISPs from refusing service to users who decline to share their data as Illinois ponders its own privacy-related legal moves

Why risk breaking all the way into the phone if you can just hang around on the periphery and listen to all the data coming in and out?

The bad guys are increasingly using potentially unwanted applications to sneak past security defences, warns Sophos Labs

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Latest proposal on ‘extreme vetting’ extends scope beyond the majority-Muslim countries already under Trump’s spotlight and could require visitors to provide social media passwords

The web’s creator has attacked any UK plans to weaken encryption and promised to battle any moves by the Trump administration to weaken net neutrality. From a report on BBC: Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking to the BBC following the…

According to new research commissioned by smart home software and hardware brand Wink, 34 percent of Americans believe it would cost $5,000 or more to turn their home into a smart home. An article on USA Today adds: It’s a…