Ah, temptation. You see a device just sitting there, say an iPhone, so you decide to swipe it. Except, it turns out that you’re not too technically inclined, and you don’t take the time to erase it. Unbeknownst to you, the iPhone starts saving the photos you’re snapping to the original owner’s PhotoStream. Oops. According […]
Researcher Ashley Podhradsky from Dakota State University, along with colleagues Rob D’Ovidio and Cindy Casey at Drexel University, claim Microsoft isn’t doing enough to protect personal user information. In a recent experiment, they purchased a refurbished Xbox 360 from an authorized reseller and used a readily available modding tool to access folders and files on […]
New Scientist uncovers a clever new Apple patent for enhancing security of portable devices. A memory chip is implanted inside a device’s AC adapter that stores a security question or an encryption key for the password required to log into the device. In the event that you forget your password, recovery is possible simply by […]
Ever wonder what happened to those guys who found an iPhone 4 prototype in a German beer garden in California last year and sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000? Yesterday, the tale reached a conclusion as Brian Hogan and his friend Sage Wallower both pleaded no contest to misdemeanor theft charges. The two receive one […]
