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Cassian Holt

Latest Articles by Cassian Holt

Deleting an app doesn’t always erase the data it already collected

A SIM-swap attack can drain a bank account by stealing your phone number

Free VPN apps sometimes sell the very traffic they promise to hide

Kessler syndrome could one day trap us behind a wall of orbital debris

Public phone-charging ports can hide a data-stealing trick called juice jacking

Two-factor codes sent by text can still be intercepted by attackers

Old Wi-Fi routers are being hijacked by hackers, and a few models keep showing up

Security experts still urge phone owners to switch off one location-tracking setting

Xiaomi’s 16 flagship leads a rush of 2nm phones arriving September 24

More than 20 new smartphones are landing this September in the busiest launch month yet

Qualcomm’s next 2nm phone chip lands September 22 with a 5 GHz peak speed

Impostor callers posing as banks and agents have stolen roughly $215 million, the FBI says

NASA prepares to switch on a powerful new telescope built to survey the whole sky

Six million bottles of a household cleaner are being pulled over a sickening bacteria

A recalled power bank tied to one death is still sitting in millions of pockets

Imposter scams top the FTC’s fraud list for a ninth year in a row