Departing Apple engineer stole autonomous car tech: FBI
An ex-Apple engineer on Monday was charged with stealing secrets from a hush-hush self-driving car technology project days before he quit to go to a Chinese startup.
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New data shows US hate crimes continued to rise in 2017
Published FBI data currently covers hate crimes only up to 2016, when totals increased across the nation for the second year in a row.
Apple closing iPhone security gap used by law enforcement
Apple is closing a security gap that allowed outsiders to pry personal information from locked iPhones without a password, a change that will thwart law enforcement agencies that have been exploiting the vulnerability to ...
Q&A: Should you reboot your router like the FBI says?
Last week, the FBI recommended rebooting home and small office routers that could have been infected with disruptive malware, allegedly by sophisticated state-backed Russian hackers . An estimated half million routers and ...
Watchdog: FBI could have tried harder to hack iPhone
FBI officials could have tried harder to unlock an iPhone as part of a terrorism investigation before launching an extraordinary court fight with Apple Inc. in an effort to force it to break open the device, the Justice Department's ...
Get hit by internet crime? Good luck getting help from some local police
In practically the blink of an eye, Maggie Irizarry lost about $1,300 to thieves. But the culprits weren't robbers who broke into her Miami home. They were hackers who connived their way onto her Lenovo laptop.
Encrypted smartphones secure your identity, not just your data
Smartphones store your email, your photos and your calendar. They provide access to online social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and even your bank and credit card accounts. And they're keys to something even more ...
What the latest FBI data do and do not tell us about hate crimes in the US
This November, the FBI released its annual report of hate crimes for 2016, showing that in Trump's America, Muslims experience a greater risk of violence.
US attorney general slams 'epidemic' of leaks to media
FBI again finds itself unable to unlock a gunman's cellphone
The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman's encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it might hold.
