Personal assistants on smartphones – Siri on the iPhone, Google Now on Androids, and Cortana on Windows Phone – allow us to do a lot of things with only a voice command. We can make calls, send text messages, do web searches, and much more. But what if someone else could make your phone do...

Apple just released iOS 9.0.2. This new version claims to close the well-publicised Lock screen hole that lets anyone view and edit your contacts, send text messages, and rummage through your photos – without entering your passcode. If you had an iOS 9 or 9.0.1 device with Siri accessible from your lock screen, you were vulnerable...

Watch out, iDevice owners! Siri has opened the pod bay door to let snoopers in. Barely a week after the release of iOS 9, a hacker has found a way for snoops to access your contacts and photos and send messages without your passcode. The bug affects iOS 9 and iOS 9.0.1 on iPhones, iPads and iPods....

Rose is a 31-year-old security analyst and hacker from San Francisco, a self-described “computer nerd” with “quirky attitudes” towards life, and an “unorthodox family.” She doesn’t like for people to know too much about her because her work makes her aware of how “under surveillance we all are,” but she also has a “flamboyant and...