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Facebook revamps 'privacy checkup' to help manage data settings
The new privacy feature will help you control how your data is used – if you can find it.
By Karissa Bell
Why you're wrong about Y2K, 20 years later
Y2K was more important than you think.
Data leak by IoT device maker Wyze exposes personal information of 2.4 million people
It's the Internet of Things, and one of those things is you.
By Amanda Yeo
5 bold tech predictions for 2020
You're going to spend so much money on Instagram. Sorry.
By Mashable Staff
Messaging app ToTok found to be UAE surveillance tool, according to reports
Yikes.
By Words by Amanda Yeo; Video by Jules Suzdaltsev
Messaging app ToTok is reportedly a secret UAE surveillance tool
Delete it immediately.
By Amanda Yeo
Company says it can extract email addresses and passwords from locked iPhones
The data can be extracted in the iPhone's most secure mode.
By Matt Binder
Hugh Grant, victim of tabloid phone-hacking, on playing a tabloid private investigator in Guy Ritchie's new film
Yep, he drew inspiration from the people who hacked his own phone, robbed his house, and stole his medical records.
Don’t pirate the newest Star Wars film, unless you like malware
Malicious hackers and malware are definitely more a dark side of the Force kind of thing.
By Jack Morse
TikTok got an 'F' for data accessibility. Who got an 'A'?
Well, that's surprising.
By Words by Matt Binder; Video by Stephen MacDonald
Database with phone numbers of 267 million Facebook users shared online
Beware phone calls and texts from unknown numbers.
By Matt Binder
Your smartphone is probably being tracked—and it's not hard to figure out who you are
The New York Times looked at 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million people.
Lab test results stolen in hack of 15 million patients' records
And yes, at least some lab tests results were likely accessed.
By Jack Morse
Make your own Baby Yoda cookies with this brilliant baking hack
Sometimes, the quick and easy path is the right one.
By Andy Moser
Facebook waited two weeks to tell employees their payroll data was stolen
Payroll data belonging to nearly 29,000 current and former Facebook employees was stolen.
By Jack Morse
Chrome will now warn you if your password's been stolen as soon as you type it in
Now you have no excuse not to change that password you use everywhere.
We need to talk about that ridiculous Congressional hearing on encryption
“If we open these things up, there are consequences."
By Matt Binder
Nearly 800,000 applications for copies of birth certificates found accessible online
This can't be good.
By Words by Jack Morse; Video by Stephen MacDonald
Nearly 800,000 applications for birth certificate copies exposed online for anyone to access
The data is available to anyone who can guess the easily guessable URL.
By Jack Morse
Google finally ends support for the old Google Glass after a controversial life
The original version of Google Glass is mercifully being put to rest.
By Alex Perry
Microsoft found 44 million accounts using breached passwords
Microsoft has now forced a password reset on all these user accounts.
By Matthew Humphries
