iPhone owners are reporting that photos they’d deleted are now back on their phones, after updating to iOS 17.5. With so many users reporting similar oddities, it would seem something went wrong, or at least different than to be expected. Here are some examples from Reddit: “When in conversation with my partner, I went to send...

More and more websites and services are making multi-factor-authentication (MFA) mandatory, which makes it much harder for cybercriminals to access your accounts. That’s a great thing. But as security evolves, so do cybercriminals who are always looking for new ways to scam us. A type of phishing we’re calling authentication-in-the-middle...

BreachForums—probably the largest dark web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold—has been seized by law enforcement. Now, both the regular and the TOR domain of BreachForums are plastered with a message telling visitors the site is now under control of the FBI. The FBI said BreachForums and its predecessor Raidforums...

Apple and Google have announced an industry specification for Bluetooth tracking devices which help alert users to unwanted tracking. The specification, called Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers, will make it possible to alert users across both iOS and Android if a device is unknowingly being used to track them. The alert would...

Google has released an emergency security update for its Chrome browser. The update includes a patch released four days earlier for a vulnerability which Google say is already being exploited. The easiest way to update Chrome is to allow it to update automatically, but you can end up lagging behind if you never close the browser or if something...

Across America, survivors of domestic abuse and stalking are facing a unique location tracking crisis born out of policy failure, unclear corporate responsibility, and potentially risky behaviors around digital sharing that are now common in relationships. No, we’re not talking about stalkerware. Or hidden Apple AirTags. We’re talking about...