This week's TechRepublic and ZDNet news stories include highlights from WWDC, a warning to employers regarding employee security, and what you need to know about prescriptive analytics.

Both FireFox and Chrome have received updates to better guard users against privacy and security threats.

The endpoint security company already has specific plans for the new funds.

The mobile ad plugin, found in hundreds of Google Play apps, uses well-honed techniques from malware development to hide itself.

The vulnerable kits also offer a point of entry to compromise legitimate website servers.

A critical data encryption tool, included by default in iOS, is being turned off in more than two-thirds of popular apps.

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The country's rapid economic growth and other factors are driving an increase in cybercrime and cyber espionage activity.

Apple has long been the proprietary bad guy, but Google’s privacy-sucking ways in Android should give open source freedom fighters reason to consider switching.

It was a well-oiled business, with Top Dogs fencing devices, forgers cooking up fake IDs with stolen PII, and runners ripping off phones.

In another step to scrape pedophiles off the bottom of its shoe YouTube is banning youngsters from live-streaming without adult supervision.

The latest version of Firefox, 67.0.1, features a fully-fledged version of Mozilla’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) privacy system.

Modular malware attacks have surged since the start of 2019, according to Barracuda Networks.

Experts hope to see regulation for connected devices security in 2020.

CIOs and CISOs continue battling with security issues in the enterprise, but improving staff tech skills isn't the only solution, according to Exabeam.

Critical bugs impact a widely deployed streaming platform, common in the U.S. and elsewhere.