Before using an app, privacy experts advise searching its fine print for keywords that may highlight the company’s data collection, retention, protection, and sharing practices. Here’s how.
By tracking location, speed, and sudden braking, these devices can help people keep tabs on where and how their cars are being driven. But privacy experts advise taking precautions.
You know that on its own, email is not secure for sending credit card or passport numbers. But you still need to send some personal information over the Internet. Here’s how.
As smart TVs with very little built-in security features become ubiquitous, consumers can take basic steps to better secure their network access, microphones, and cameras.
Do you use a code-generating app from Google, Microsoft, LastPass, or Authy that supports multiple services? Migrating it to your new Android or iOS device requires a few steps.
While traditional malware infects a system via a file that requires execution, fileless malware can infect a device’s memory via an instruction set hiding in an email attachment.
Using off-the-shelf parts and the help of a nurse enthusiast, a biohacking group designed, built, and subcutaneously implanted three networked hard drives. We inquired and watched.
LAS VEGAS—Are you too sexy for your license plate? Hacker and fashion designer Kate Rose thinks not.
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Alongside key U.S. businesses, the desktop manufacturers of unofficial conference badges explain how the president’s trade war against China has put their razor-thin margins at risk.
There isn’t yet a one-size-fits-all way to prepare for or respond to social-media search demands—or device searches—at the border. But there are guidelines.
In 2000, McGraw wrote the first book on software security, paving the way for an entire industry. With BIML, he’s shifted his attention to a new frontier: machine-learning algorithms.
As a chorus of voices pursuing antitrust action against Big Tech grows louder, it’s important to note that even using regulations to protect consumer privacy is far from a simple endeavor.
Before booking a stay, read the home description for a required camera disclosure. And after checking in, you can take these steps to find a hidden camera and protect your privacy.
