I called Equifax to find out if I’d been affected but it just hung up on me, three times

People haven’t had much success online trying to find out if their Social Security number was included in a massive Equifax breach (affecting possibly half the U.S.) reported earlier today, so I called Equifax’s emergency response line to see what I could find out. The company put up […]

Hack Brief: Patch Your Android Phone To Block An Evil ‘Toast’ Attack

Modern smartphones take pains to “sandbox” apps, keeping them carefully segregated so that no mischievous program can meddle in another app’s sensitive business. But security researchers have found an unexpected feature of Android that can surreptitiously grant an app the permission to not merely reach […]