Some Gmail complaints are perennial: Google won’t let me recover my account password, or a hacker has changed my two-factor authentication options. Now it seems you can add push notifications that ...

iPhone apps are scooping up your data via push notifications, according to a new report. Credit: Getty Images Push notifications are being exploited to invasively collect user data once again, ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

One of the features trailed by Apple last year for future inclusion in its iPhone SDK was push notification - the ability for apps (including games) to pop up messages or alerts to users, even when ...

Security researcher Tommy Mysk has demonstrated that iPhone push notifications are being used by popular apps to covertly send data about the user. In a new video outlining the practice, Mysk ...

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