Motorola, HTC, and Sony lock and encrypt the bootloaders on nearly all their phones, and Verizon is actually supportive of that policy. The carrier says it will be better this way, and its arguments are likely to fly. Why Verizon wants your bootloader locked ...
Since we discussed ransomware, you should know that 10% of all data breaches committed in 2021 involved ransomware, according to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report. DataProt revealed that in 2019, there were over 20 data breach instances reported every day in the first six months...
While it seems Apple would have the autonomy to blacklist an iPhone, this isn’t the case. Apple doesn’t blacklist iPhones due to their policy of not handling stolen devices. It’s up to phone carriers, such as AT&T or Verizon, to report lost or stolen phones. The IMEI number (Inter...
What Microsoft (MSFT 0.94%) owns could fill a football field and then some. With the possible of exception of Apple (AAPL 1.15%), no company has played more a bigger role in shaping the modern computing era from the early days of personal computer to the AI revolution than Microsoft. ...