Have you ever gotten a new phone only to find out it’s locked to a specific carrier? This often happens when you purchase a subsidized phone from a carrier. The carrier locks the phone so you can’t ...

Accessing Chrome OS or a Chromebook has historically been a chore. Sure, it’s in the name of security, but it’s frustrating to unlock your screen using a laboriously long password. Your days of woe ...

Locking your Android smartphone with a password, PIN or unlock pattern is your first defense against those who would use it for malicious purposes like stealing your info or sending joke texts to your ...

What's safer? Using a numeric PIN code to unlock your Android smartphone or relying on a finger squiggle? Newly-released research suggests that, at least when someone close by could be looking over ...

It may be useful to change the PIN code of a newly purchased iPhone (if the PIN is set to 0000 by default for example) or for safety reasons to protect from fraudulent use of your phone in case of ...

Nintendo’s next console is getting a useful security feature. Nintendo’s next console is getting a useful security feature. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...