You’d probably notice if there were a sudden $15 or $20 spike in your cell phone bill. But what if your monthly bill was only a buck or two over? Would you bother to scour every line item to see what happened? Well, many of us probably wouldn’t—after all,...
Yep, this is getting a little nuts. Starting around 6 p.m. ET, the CIA.gov website slowly but surely ground to a halt, and the hacker group LulzSec—which just a day ago managed to sneak into the U.S. Senate website—is claiming responsibility. “Tango down –...
Is your four-digit PIN for unlocking your iPhone “1234,” or “0000”? How about “2580,” “1111,” “5555,” or “5683”? If it happens to match any of those codes—or any of the other top-10 iPhone PINs,...
Hackers have declared open season on the biggest online companies, with the latest target being Citibank—you know, only one of the largest banks in the world, and it appears that Citigroup knew about the break-in since last month. Wonderful. As Citi execs and federal...
Nancy writes: I appreciate your info on the cloud. Doesn’t storing so much of your data in the cloud mean hacking it is easier? Greetings Nancy! Yes, you’re right: theoretically, any time you put data on a Net-connected server like Apple’s upcoming...
What do Sony, Yahoo!, PBS.org, and the White House all have in common? They’ve all been victims of coordinated, sophisticated, and somewhat successful attacks by hackers and phishers intent on stealing your private information: think your home address, your...
Sony had said it would re-launch its weeks-shuttered PlayStation Store by the end of this week, and the company made good on its promise late Wednesday, with thousands of games, add-ons, wallpapers, demos, and movie rentals available for purchase and download for the...
Picture this: You’ve just ordered a tasty “$5 Footlong” at Subway and it’s time to pay up. But instead of pulling out your wallet or fishing around for the debit card floating around in your purse, you simply whip out your smartphone, type in a...
