In a case that reads like a corporate thriller, a 55-year-old software developer has been convicted of sabotaging his former employer’s computer systems, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in ...

Every store worth a damn has a kill switch. That's the point of a store, to be a safe walled garden for the consumer. Now that MS has a software distribution service it is responsible for everything ...

We all, at some point, have fantasized about giving our employers a big middle finger on the way out the door, whether we leave on our own volition or are pushed out. Well, a 55-year-old Texas man ...

After a total wait even longer than his prison sentence and being convicted in March, former software developer Davis Lu has finally been sentenced for a malware kill switch scheme he deployed in 2019 ...

Generally, when using a VPN, it is recommended to enable the kill switch. You may not notice a loss of a VPN connection—or if ...

A Chinese national living in Texas was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for installing malicious code on his former employer’s systems, including a ...

New York: Google and Microsoft will add a “kill-switch” feature to their Android and Windows phone operating systems. The feature is a method of making a handset completely useless if it is stolen, ...

Question: Even with sideloading, how do you get your hands on said app file? Only iOS actually downloads a file permanently on your computer hard drive so you can still use an app even if Apple has ...