Hackers are pretty scary. Amoral, hooded figures with magical computer skills that can break into anything within minutes. At least that is what most of us think of when we hear the term "hacker." It ...

New York State Attorney General Letitia James urged New Yorkers Tuesday to protect their data by requesting 23andMe delete their personal data and destroy any samples of genetic material held by the ...

To keep my personal data safe, I use a mix of secure local drives, encrypted cloud storage like ProtonDrive, and password managers like Bitwarden. I avoid oversharing online, enable two-factor ...

Restoring personal data and operating systems when disaster strikes can be filled with gray areas and worries that the backup tool does not miss any critical files. The process can be daunting for ...

You’ve been planning on fixing your brakes and Googling auto repair shops. At the same time, you have been longing to buy butterscotch fudge ripple ice cream and searching for it on your Instacart app ...

You may be owed some of the $177 million fund. Here's how to find out before it's too late. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been covering technology, software, finance, ...

Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal ...