SAN FRANCISCO - Future passwords could be more secure than anything you type, and all you'll have to do is look at your device's iris scanner to unlock it. Your eyes would serve as a more secure form of biometric security than your fingerprints, which hackers have been known to fool with high-resolution photos. The
SAN FRANCISCO - Evan Robertson won his school science fair this year by proving just how thoughtless people can be on public Wi-Fi networks. Evan, now 11, programmed fake Wi-Fi portals and took them to food courts shopping centers across the Austin, Texas, area and waited to see how many agreed to some pretty outrageous
WASHINGTON DC - Starting Dec. 1, federal investigators can seek permission from a magistrate to plant hacking software on a computer that’s disguising its location. The change affects Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which are proposed by the US Department of Justice and approved by the US Supreme Court. This form
SAN FRANCISCO - If you've never heard of a DDoS attack before, you could be forgiven for wondering what the frak was going on Friday as half your favorite websites stopped working. The acronym stands for "distributed denial of service attack," which is technical speak for a simple but increasingly powerful tool for knocking websites
WASHINGTON DC - Russian hackers are attempting to alter the outcome of the US national election by tampering with voter registration databases with the simple goal of undermining confidence in one of the most contentious presidential elections in history. But cybersecurity experts said actually altering results is impossible because voter registration databases are not the
KANSAS CITY - Sprint, in partnership with the Sprint Foundation, is launching the 1Million Project, a multiyear program that plans to give 1 million disadvantaged high school students in the United States access to a free mobile device and high-speed internet. Inspired by President Barack Obama's ConnectED and My Brother's Keeper projects, the 1Million Project aims
WASHINGTON DC - The 400-pound hacker Donald Trump warned about Monday night during the presidential debate can't ruin Election Day, experts told Congress Wednesday. As hacks continue to influence the 2016 election, Congress has been looking into whether cyberattacks could actually affect the ballot on November 8. A congressional subcommittee on information technology, inviting high-ranking officials
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers swiped personal information associated with at least a half billion Yahoo accounts, the internet giant said Thursday, marking the biggest data breach in history. The hack, which took place in 2014, revealed names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, security questions and answers, Yahoo said in a
CUPERTINO, Ca. - What more can Apple say to convince customers it's protecting their personal information? As of Wednesday, it seems the company ran short of new ways to reassure us. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the iPhone 7 this week, but never listed its privacy features. In a video before the main presentation, late-night
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple issued an urgent security update on Thursday for OS X and Safari after finding the same vulnerabilities in its desktop operating system that were discovered last week in its mobile operating system and that allow attackers to remotely take control of a device. The patch for OS X 10.11.6 "El Capitan"
