For almost as long as personal computers have existed, coders have created backdoors in programs (or sometimes just fun little Easter eggs) that can only be accessed with a special "key." The ...

There's a hidden language that's part of the GSM standard that can unlock hidden features on your smartphone. You can dial codes to check your bill, data usage, forward calls, hide your caller ID, and ...

While iOS has its advantages, the ace in Android‘s deck is customization. Because there are fewer walls in place, you can make it do more, sometimes in ways phone makers never intended. There is, in ...

Guess how long it would take a computer to brute-force an 8-number password. The answer: instantly. That's according to Hive Systems' Password Table, which shows how shockingly quick passwords of ...