• Hackers target toy maker VTech, make off with customer data

    VTech, a company perhaps best known for its educational toys, was the target of a successful data breach, the company confirmed on Saturday. 
    According to a statement published on VTech’s site, hackers made their way into the user database for the company’s Learning Lodge—an app store of sorts specifically for VTech’s educational toys—and made off with names, email addresses, mailing addresses, encrypted passwords, and responses to those “secret” q
  • Cortana for iOS beta arrives (but it isn't for everyone)

    Here’s some good news and bad news for those of you looking forward to playing with Cortana for iOS: The good news is that the public beta is here. The bad news? Only a small group of users will get to try it out.
    According to tech blog Warenotice, Microsoft is currently distributing the Cortana for iOS beta to the first round of beta testers—presumably to those who applied for the beta program earlier this month. Warenotice received an invitation to test the app, and published

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