Criminals are targeting phones and passcodes for a profit, and victims are left in the dark as to what to do after. Your phone holds all, or most, of your sensitive information, and in the wrong hands ...

From phones to bank accounts, most of us juggle several passwords, PINs, and passcodes, making it hard to keep track of all of them. Maybe it's happened to you: you pick up your iPad, swipe to unlock ...

Losing your iPhone is bad. Losing your entire digital life, from photos to finances, is traumatic. Unfortunately, the latter is all too common. Journalist Joanna Stern recently published a report with ...

Tech reporters Nicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal are back with a follow-up on their exposé of Apple’s problematic iPhone security design decisions. In the first article, they ...

A convicted thief has revealed how he would trick owners into giving him their iPhone passcode — and then how he could steal their life savings. "I'm already serving time. I just feel like I should ...

Criminal suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police under the US Constitution's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, according to a unanimous ruling issued today by Utah ...

A new report highlights that when a thief has both an iPhone and the corresponding passcode, a user's entire digital life is at risk. While this is in no way new, there are some simple steps to ...