After authorities seized Fort Bend County Judge KP George's cell phone last month, investigators alleged the judge may have attempted to delete all the information from the device before handing it ...

Pro-privacy groups criticize the Indian government's blanket access to phone data, raising alarms over potential surveillance ...

You might think you're being careful with your phone data, but the truth is, most of what drains it happens quietly in the background. Even when you're not scrolling or streaming, your phone can be ...

Text and phone data for hundreds of millions of AT&T customers was exposed through a massive hack. Here’s how to know if your information was exposed and what you should do next: According to AT&T, ...

Your smartphone holds your entire life, making it a prime target for hackers and spies. Here's how to protect it.

Here are some best practices for safeguarding sensitive personal data. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology writer for The New York Times and author of Tech Fix, a weekly ...

In theory, if you exercise even the bare minimum of best security practices on a smartphone from the last decade or thereabouts, it should be fairly difficult for most bad actors to access your data ...