New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick ...

Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play ...

Aqara’s G350 brings Matter 1.5 camera support, promising easier smart home integration — but it only works with Samsung ...

Security researchers discovered that several Play Store apps were unknowingly exposing user data after IDMerit, a third-party identity verification company, left a nearly one-terabyte database ...

Google blocked more than 1.75 million policy-violating apps from reaching Android users in 2025 and banned over 80,000 malicious developer accounts, according to its annual Android and Google Play ...

You already know malware is out there. You hear about phishing emails, fake apps and data breaches almost every week. But every so often, something comes along that feels more personal. ZeroDayRAT ...

Google says it blocked 1.75m apps and 80,000 bad developer accounts in 2025 Play Protect scanned 350bn apps daily, flagging 27m malicious apps outside Play Store GenAI models boosted app review ...

If you're wondering how to post about ICE on neighborhood apps, here are some tips. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security and Smart Home Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart ...

Here's what the law says about recording on your security cameras and when it may violate privacy or cause other problems. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security and Smart Home Tyler has worked on, lived ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

There’s no shortage of creative ways to repurpose an old phone. You can turn it into a smart home sensor, a security camera, a digital clock, or even a dashcam. And while those are all great use cases ...