Apple doesn't tend to share well with other corporations, but they have made a few efforts to expand their services to the platforms of their competitors.  You can, for instance, download Apple Music onto an Android device or on Sonos Speakers. Soon, you'll be able to access Apple Music on your Amazon Echo.

Most people use Google Chrome.  In fact, according to the latest statistics, Chrome has more than half the browser market share, with the rest dividing the smaller portion of the market between them.  That's relevant because recently, Google has made important changes to their browser that provide visual cues when a website you're visiting doesn't have an SSL certificate.

Have you ever created an account on Dell's website to purchase computer equipment?  If so, your account may have been compromised.  As a precaution, Dell has forced password resets for every account on their site. You've likely already got a notification sitting in your inbox with a password rest link and additional instructions and information.

In recent months, security researchers have unearthed all sorts of new hardware vulnerabilities.  Several of them allow hackers to quietly assume control of your PC's built-in camera or microphone, giving them the ability to spy on you and invade your privacy at will.

Microsoft just won a huge military contract worth $480 million to bring 100,000 customized AR (Augmented Reality) headsets, based on their HoloLens technology, to the US Army.

The army's plan is to integrate the headsets with their STES (Synthetic Training Environment Squad) system, which allows US forces to conduct hyper-realistic mock battles as practice before a live firefight, with an emphasis on improving close-combat capabilities, especially in subterranean and urban environments.

Akamai has discovered a nasty new hack that's allowing cybercriminals to move beyond simply compromising routers, but also, in some instances, to use the compromised routers to take control of other machines sitting behind it on your network.

The hack, known as UPnProxy exploits weaknesses in the design of the UPnP services installed on many routers, allowing hackers to alter the router's Network Address Translation tables.

Bob Diachenko, the Director of Cyber Risk Research for Hacken, recently made a disturbing discovery.  He found an ElasticSearch server open and vulnerable on the internet, without so much as a password to protect it.

Unfortunately, the server was leaking a staggering 73GB of data and had a number of databases cached inside the server's memory.

Do you have an account on USPS.com?  If so, you're not alone.  Tens of millions of Americans use it daily for a variety of purposes.  Unfortunately, if you do have an account, it may have been compromised.

Recently, the USPS announced the discovery of a critical security vulnerability that exposed the account information of more than sixty million customers to literally anyone with a USPS.com account.

In recent years we've seen several companies suffer from hacks of various magnitudes. Over time, we've witnessed the growth of what could be described as best practices in terms of how to respond.

The typical arc goes something like this:

The hack is discovered.

Google relies on crowd sourcing to help keep its maps up to date.  There's no other approach that even comes close to being feasible.  Sure, Google has employees on the job, roving the nation's highways, byways, and back streets. Even if the company employed ten times the number they're currently using, their maps wouldn't be nearly as accurate as they've become via crowd sourcing.