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How-to: How to easily check if your data’s been breached

In these days of massive data breaches and multi-step authentication, perhaps the best question is whether your accounts have been breached in the first place? On Sunday, notable computer maven, philosopher and all-around wise human being Dirk A. Keaton pointed out the mighty haveibeenpwned.com, an aggregator web site that compiles breaches, lets people enter their […]

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Review focuses on amazingly detailed, $100 iPhone X knock off

If there’s a cautionary tale, it’s this. Vice’s Jason Koebler and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai have written a full review of a $100 iPhone X knock off from China. The piece centers on how convincing the top-to-bottom, software-to-hardware bootleggery is. iOS is recreated down to the pixel as an Android skin and only the sluggish performance, on-screen […]

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Apple to meet with industry group members in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss privacy-based concerns

Representatives from several major technology firms will meet in San Francisco on Wednesday to address growing concerns over consumer privacy, driven to the forefront by new European regulations and public uproar over scandals like Cambridge Analytica. The companies include a part of the Information Technology Industry Council, a Washington trade group, as well as Apple, […]

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Apple cites secure emergency 911 system for iOS 12, touts privacy protection

Some additional safety features are en route for iOS 12. In a press release issued on Monday, Apple, outlined how iPhones running iOS 12 will be able to share location data automatically and securely with first responders when you dial 911. Apple says this will help reduce emergency response times by providing faster and more […]

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Apple vows to close security hole used by law enforcement to unlock iOS devices

Apple, having long since vowed to create the iPhone as a device that only its owners can open and mired in controversies as to whether to allow law enforcement in, has stated that it is planning an iPhone software update that would effectively disable the phone’s charging and data port hour after the phone is […]