Your concern isn’t unfounded, and while these exploits don’t give an attacker full access to your phone, other tricks can. Here’s what you need to know about keeping your phone secure. Let’s start ...

When it comes to smartphone safety, the single most important thing a mobile phone owner can do is lock the device with a unique, four-digit PIN. That’s been the opinion of many experts for years, but ...

In a case pending before the Florida Supreme Court, the question of whether police can compel you to disclose your passcode in order to give them access to texts, emails and pictures stored in the ...

A stolen phone is a nightmare scenario for so many. Not only does this introduce a new and potentially excessive financial strain (the average smartphone in 2023 costs $718.23), but a lost phone can ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the state where attorney Trey Tanner works. It's North Carolina. A month ago I probably would have been very ...

Apple includes a feature on your iPhone that erases all your phone's data after 10 passcode attempts. The feature seems scary to most users, but it's a lot harder to trigger than you'd think. In fact, ...

New Jersey’s top court has ruled that police can compel suspects to give up their phone passcodes, and does not violate the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment protects Americans from ...

When police responded in 2018 to a call about a shattered window at a home in Orange County, they found a black Samsung smartphone near the broken window. A woman in the home identified the phone as ...

Prosecutors in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have recently asked a local judge to force a Louisiana State University student implicated in a fatal hazing case to give up the passcode to his cell phone. The ...

Alain Philippon arrived at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Canada and was stopped by border agents. He had flown in from the Dominican Republic. As the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ...

A Tampa, Florida man found himself in jail for 44 days after he ignored a judge’s order to give police his cell phone passcode so officers could search the phone. William Montanez failed to use his ...

In a classic “Seinfeld” episode, the character George Costanza refuses to tell anyone, including his fiancee, his ATM passcode (the episode ends with him reluctantly forced to do so to save a man ...