Blocklists were already losing ground before AI entered the picture. Phishing domains have been getting shorter-lived for years, campaigns have been burning infrastructure faster, and the gap between ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents want to know what's in your phone—and they won't take no for an answer. Courts have long held that border cops don't have to respect the Fourth Amendment ...

Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search. By Adeel Hassan It sounds like ...

When Dr. Jason Gibson began grading midterm exams for two summer history courses at Alcorn State University, he noticed a pattern that quickly became impossible to ignore. The assignment asked ...

In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative ...

A botnet called Dysphoria has compromised around 200,000 devices across the world and is using them for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and traffic relay operations. According to QiAnXin ...