Personal data removal services help scrub your info from people-search sites and data brokers, and DeleteMe and Incogni are ...

Cyberthieves target huge stores of data, often one company at a time. It’s the 20th-Century equivalent of looting a bank vault. In our time, these heists are happening on a regular basis. Since data ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

If you don't reside in California and qualify for DROP, all is not lost—though you will have to invest a bit more time and/or ...

Data brokers scrape together your most personal information—including where you’ve lived in the past and who belongs to your ...

You probably already know that you have precious little privacy, and that shadowy data brokers have built the buying and selling of people’s personal information into a multibillion-dollar industry.

Healthcare data continues to be a top target for cybercriminals. In June alone, two major breaches compromised over 13 million patient records. Now, a newly confirmed Medicare data breach has affected ...

Dataset leaked on dark web includes emails, phone numbers, partial addresses, according to media reports - Anadolu Ajansı ...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from covering data breaches over the years, it’s that you should never take a company’s initial numbers at face value. When a breach becomes public, most companies ...