If you're looking to protect your phone's data, here's how to lock your iPhone with a passcode, or lock it remotely if it's ever lost or stolen.

I should start by saying that there are plenty of legitimate reasons not to want anyone snooping in your data–including the government. If your reason is that you plan to do something illegal, well, I ...

Apple plans to require six-digit passcodes to unlock its latest mobile devices that use iOS 9, its forthcoming mobile operating system. Users already have the option in iOS 8 of setting a much longer ...

The popularity of the iPhone combined with the small form factor of the device make it a prime target for thieves, and also make it highly unlikely that a lost iPhone 4 would be returned to its ...

ElcomSoft, a Russian computer security firm that specializes in cracking passwords and circumventing encrypted systems, has successfully broken iOS 4's hardware encryption. In around 20 minutes, the ...