Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X, a $10 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. The 90-page ebook ...

Confirming a Bloomberg report from earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is finally going to give users control over exactly what permissions they want to grant to each app.

File permissions are core to almost everything you do on your Linux machine, from viewing a PDF to saving an image and running an app. The core model keeps things simple, but there are quite a few ...

To say Windows is a huge platform is an understatement. At a high level it seems so large because everything tends to work together in a way that makes sense for both administrators and employees ...

Every organization has devices, networks or cloud services with improperly configured permissions that expose sensitive data or could allow hackers to gain privileged access. Check them now. I’ve ...

Google’s android extravaganza, I/O 2015 is literally so close now that the excitement is building dramatically. By this time tomorrow, a number of the key announcements will have been made and the ...

A flaw has been discovered in Samsung’s Secure Folder feature, which allows anyone to view the apps and photos stored in it. This is possible because Samsung’s Secure Folder is set up like a Work ...