Apple Launch a Credit Card with no Fees
Apple announced that it would partner with Goldman Sachs and MasterCard to offer its own credit card. The Card is built into the Apple Wallet app on iPhone, offering customers…
Selena Gomez and 6 million other Instagram Accounts Hacked
A group of hackers used a bug earlier this week to scrape the phone numbers and email addresses of six million Instagram accounts and are now selling that information on…
Google Reaction To Adobe Dropping Flash Player for Android
Adobe announced Thursday that it would not provide a version of Flash for Android 4.1, dubbed Jelly Bean, or any updates thereafter. Google introduced version 4.1 this week at its…
Yahoo Patches Password Leak
Yahoo says it has fixed the flaw that allowed hackers to steal more than 450,000 passwords from one of its many services. The company also provided more information about whose passwords had…
A Look at the Worst Security Snafus of 2012 So Far!
Could things really be this bad? From the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches, security snafus have ruled the first half…
Send Email Like a Pro
Email often straddles a fine line between help and hindrance. It’s an invaluable tool, no doubt about it, but sometimes it can be a stubborn, unwieldy, and intrusive monster—maybe even…
Apple device IDs hacked: What you need to know
A hacker collective known as AntiSec has published over a million Apple device IDs that it claims were captured from the laptop of an FBI agent. If you own an…
"Must Read" Computing Facts and Advice You should Know.
Here are the best pieces of computing facts & advice we've ever heard. Useful information never goes out of style. While the computer technologies seem so ordinary and familiar there…
Samsung Smart TV hack highlights risk of 'The Internet of Everything'
A smart TV is only as smart as the person controlling it. So if the person in control is a hacker, the owner could have a problem. Researchers at security…
Why Did Criminals Trust Liberty Reserve?
Liberty Reserve, the alternative-payment network and digital currency that federal prosecutors shut down a couple of days ago, was not, as it described itself, the Internet’s “largest payment processor and…