Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X, a $10 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. The 90-page ebook ...

What if your devices, networks, and cloud services have misconfigured settings? When entrepreneurs invest in their business/startup, but their administrators fail to maintain the security aspects of ...

Google is reportedly planning to include granular permission control in the upcoming latest version of its mobile operating system, currently known as Android M. This may give users more control over ...

Smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives, serving as a tool for communication, work, and entertainment ...

File permissions are core to almost everything you do on your Linux machine, from viewing a PDF to saving an image and running an app. The core model keeps things simple, but there are quite a few ...

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To say Windows is a huge platform is an understatement. At a high level it seems so large because everything tends to work together in a way that makes sense for both administrators and employees ...

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Confirming a Bloomberg report from earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is finally going to give users control over exactly what permissions they want to grant to each app.

Are you getting a bit concerned that almost every site, comment system, app and social media network wants access to your Twitter details? Even so, it's often easier to press "Yes" than to go through ...