Privacy

Your last chance to file a claim in the Equifax data-breach settlement is Jan. 22. Here's what to do if you haven't filed yet.

Facebook is reportedly “backing away” from its plan to sell ads in WhatsApp.

Roughly 70,000 photos of women scraped from Tinder profiles are circulating in a cybercrime forum. While it's certainly creepy, it's not really a breach and may not even be illegal.

Kaspersky researchers found a phishing site that promises to pay you for data breaches — but that site wants your personal data first.

A new update for Google's Smart Lock security app now allows iPhones to verify your identity via Bluetooth when you log into a Google service on another device.

Apple needs to help the FBI unlock two iPhones used by the suspect in the Naval Air Station Pensacola shootings, Attorney General Barr said.

Microsoft's Project Artemis will use artificial intelligence to scan online chats to detect signs of grooming by sexual predators.

Ring defended and detailed its security policies in a letter to U.S. senators, but revealed it had fired some workers for viewing customer videos.

The FBI has asked for Apple's help in unlocking two iPhones reportedly used by the suspected killer of three people at Naval Air Station Pensacola last month.

Apple and Facebook faced off on privacy panel at CES, as Apple made an official appearance at the tech trade show for the first time in 28 years.

Ring is updating its app to make it easier to adjust your privacy and security settings.

Xiaomi blamed a customer's ability to see other people's camera feeds on a caching update.

Landry's, which owns dozens of restaurant chains across North America, said its payment systems were infected by card-stealing malware.

Apple and Google have pulled chat platform ToTok from their app stores following reports that the service is a government spy tool used by the United Arab Emirates.

A flaw in the Dropbox update process lets a local user or software seize control of the entire PC, and there's no official patch yet.

Twitter said older versions of its Android app had a serious security flaw that could let miscreants read private messages or even post tweets from your account.

Names and phone numbers of more than 267 million Facebook users were found unprotected online.

The mobile-advertising industry uses location data to figure out where you are. Here's how to limit what's collected.

If you're using one of 2019's 50 worst passwords, you might want to change it.

A flaw in WhatsApp could send the app into an endless crash loop, but there's a fix available.

A bad actor has hacked an indoor Ring security camera stationed in an 8-year-old child's room. And it's just one incident in a recent string of Ring account invasions.

The newest update to the iPhone's operating system lets you control which contacts and messaging apps your child is able to use at specific times of the day.

If you own smart home devices, you'll need to do some simple but essential things to protect your privacy.

Blink's new XT2 security cameras has several serious flaws that can be easily fixed with a firmware update.

Ring Video Doorbell users who post to Ring's Neighbors app may inadvertently be revealing their locations.

This Android flaw affects almost all phones and all versions, and there is no fix yet.

More than 350,000 fake websites have been set up to scam holiday shoppers, according to two new reports.

OnePlus notified many customers that some of their personal information had been compromised in a data breach.

An unprotected database containing records on 1.2 billion people was found online, but all the data was already publicly available.