Last week, Instagram ended its opt-in, and therefore rarely used, end-to-end encryption feature. Years after publicly promising to provide the privacy protections of end-to-end encryption across its platforms by default, it instead gave up on that technical challenge. Now, we've all lost an option for safer conversations on one of...

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla...

A spokesperson for the company confirmed the incident but declined to provide specifics on how many factories in North America were impacted. Foxconn has factories in Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Indiana and several across Mexico.

The letter noted that many Americans are unaware that their data is being used to set variable prices, a trend that is particularly pervasive for online shoppers.

West Pharmaceutical Services filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday evening warning customers that a hacker breached the company network on May 4, stole data and encrypted systems.

This week, Apple released iOS 26.5, an update that supports end-to-end encryption for Rich Communication Services (RCS), meaning conversations between Android and iPhone will soon be encrypted in the default chat apps. This has been a long time coming, and is a welcome delivery on a promise both Google and...