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Google and Microsoft will include a kill switch in the their smartphone.

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The technology allows for a stolen Google (GOOG) Android and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) Windows Phone-powered Nokia (NOK) device to be disabled, making it useless to the thief With Google and Microsoft on board, kill switches will be available for 97% of the smartphone market, said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who made the announcement. Newer versions of Apple's iOS currently include a kill switch called Activation Lock and tracking software that requires a password before the i...
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Cybersecurity: How safe are you?

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P.F. Chang's acknowledged that a "security compromise" of customers' credit and debit card data occurred at some of its restaurants. "We have concluded that data has been compromised," said CEO Rick Federico, in a prepared statement. The admission comes just days after cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs claimed that thousands of credit card and debit card numbers that appeared to have been stolen from P.F. Chang's restaurants earlier this year had gone up for sale. Federico said that P.F...
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