Poll: Has your Mobile Phone Ever Been Stolen?

Android malware now has a well-established track record of monetary theft, which is typically accomplished by sending text messages to premium rate numbers. At the end of summer we wrote
We’ve discovered apps in the official Apple and Google stores that steal cryptocurrency wallet data by analyzing photos.
It feels as if spam is as old as the internet itself. The post looks at the money-making scams devised over the years, and how to avoid them today.
What network-security and access-control tools do the world’s top cyber-regulators recommend to companies?
Every file, video, etc. we share contains a lot of hidden additional information — metadata. What’s it for, and is it really necessary?