Apple will appeal a California judge’s order to help prosecutors unlock an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, with CEO Tim Cook saying the move would compromise customer security. Cook confirmed the company’s position in an open letter posted on Apple’s website Wednesday, saying that “the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something... 

A group of hackers has won a $1-million bounty offered by a company affiliated with NSA for remotely hacking the latest iPhone operating system. The prize was offered by the French cybersecurity firm Zerodium as part of a challenge set to demonstrate the possibility of remotely jailbreaking devices running iOS 9.1. The hack makes it easier for intelligence agencies such as the NSA and the CIA to spy... 

A man was arrested for charging his iphone on an Overground train in London. A man has been arrested in London for charging his phone using a socket on a London Overground train. Robin Lee, a 45 year old artist from North London, was handcuffed and arrested for abstracting electricity. Lee was then also arrested for unacceptable behavior after he allegedly became aggressive when showing his objection... 

Apple ‘Ultimate General: Gettysburg’ from its AppStore Apple has yanked all applications that contain the Confederate flag from its AppStore, following the lead of other major retailers. However, it removed historically accurate Civil War games alongside apps that promoted potentially offensive themes. The removal of the apps was in reaction to the Charleston, South Carolina shooting last... 

Tim Cook’s rampant hypocrisy laid bare. Apple CEO Tim Cook slammed Indiana’s religious freedom law after critics claimed it would lead to discrimination against members of the LGBT community, but such concerns didn’t stop him from doing deals to sell iPhones in Islamic countries that execute gays. Indiana Governor Mike Pence has vowed to “fix” the controversial law by passing a follow... 

The poster by students at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore details things that a bad girl does in India. There are many ways to be labelled ‘A bad girl’ in the UK, including stealing from the tuck-shop, cheating in an exam and smoking behind the bike sheds. But in India, the bar for being a disappointment to society is much, much lower. A group of students from... 

Edward Snowden, the infamous former contractor for the National Security Agency who leaked thousands of pages of previously classified NSA intelligence documents, reportedly thinks that Apple’s iPhone has “special software” that authorities can activate remotely to be able to gather information about the user. “Edward never uses an iPhone; he’s got a simple phone,” said the lawyer of Snowden,... 

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has called a location service offered by iPhone handsets, a threat to the country’s national security. The broadcaster attacked the device’s Frequent Locations function for allowing users to be tracked and information about them revealed. The critical broadcast featured an interview with Ma Ding, director of the Institute for Security of the Internet at People’s... 

John McAfee speaks with David Knight regarding a new development to combat government snooping. The first of his projects is about to come together in a new product that launches on March 1st. The product is called Cognizant, a free to download app for Android mobile phones and tablets. It protects those devices by empowering the user to be fully aware of all the permissions that applications have... 

A meeting last year between top Apple brass and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sparked speculation that the hugely successful electronics maker is interested in purchasing the forward-thinking electric car company. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the man in charge of mergers and acquisitions at Apple, Adrian Perica, met with Elon Musk about one year ago. Details of the meeting are unknown, but... 

Where’s My Water 2 has recently launched exclusively on Apple iPhone’s iOS platform, in a new Apple-only new fashion, ignoring hundreds of millions of Android users. Even though iPhone users account for only 13,60% of the world market share (as of Q2 2013), comparing to Android’s vast 79,50%, Disney has ignored these statistics and made a grave mistake. To make things worse, they... 

A new report written by Ambassador Andrei Krutskikh from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Oleg Ostapenko that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that use of the new Apple iPhone 5 constitutes a “grave threat” to all Russian citizens in that merely by its use, “all users have given up their rights to the United States Government.” Ambassador... 

Many carriers all over the world have jumped through all sorts of hoops in order to secure that precious iPhone deal with Apple but this is the first time carriers that have already offered the Apple smartphone are giving up on it. According to Hi-Tech Russia VimpelCom known by its Beeline brand has broken all ties with Apple over serving the iPhone after its contract expired. This is the third (and... 

A hacktivist group associated with Anonymous claims it has lifted over 12 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) from an FBI computer and released 1 million of them as an archive. The leaked data includes names, phone numbers and addresses, but people still buy the spy-phone as if it’s the only phone on the market. ­“During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used... 

Recording, communicating during protests, political events could be restricted. Apple was granted a patent last week that will enable it to wirelessly disable the camera on iphones in certain locations, sparking fears that such techniques could be used to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests or events such as political conventions and gatherings. The...