A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded guilty to extortion, cyberstalking, and computer fraud charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women (including minors).

Scammers are sending realistic texts to Gmail users that could see their accounts hijacked and their phone numbers changed ...

The Chinese spying group, dubbed UNC2814, is quite prolific and has been targeting telecom firms, though it's separate from China's notorious Salt Typhoon.

Google disrupted a Chinese-linked hacking group that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries, the company said ...

Adding an alphanumeric password to the equation makes bruteforcing into WhatsApp accounts a lot more difficult for threat ...

On Tuesday, U.K.-based Iranian activist Nariman Gharib tweeted redacted screenshots of a phishing link sent to him via a WhatsApp message. “Do not click on suspicious links,” Gharib warned. The ...

Google is removing support for the POP3 protocol, which allows users to sync emails from third-party accounts into Gmail. POP3 is an older standard of syncing emails, so it's not surprising that ...

While Google disagrees, the company may have decided again that your data is its toy. Here's how to try to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email. There's no shortage of big tech companies that ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Gmail is a hugely popular email service, with over 2.5 billion users. So when rumors start to swirl about Gmail problems, people pay attention. On Monday, Google made an unusual statement, formally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some Gmail users are worried about rumors of a hack. Gmail is a hugely popular email service, with over 2.5 billion users. So when ...

Google on Monday denied reports that 2.5 billion Gmail users had been impacted by a hack, saying claims that it issued a warning about a major security issue are “entirely false.” Reports emerged last ...