Stories by Evan Schuman

Employees can unintentionally share more than their employers want anyone to know.

The alternatives to an independent list like Full Disclosure can't match it for stopping new cyberattack tactics.

The evidence keeps mounting that companies that put out mobile apps are not paying nearly enough attention to security.

The coffee purveyor has indicated it wants to move in that direction. But so do other companies, and they all have some hurdles to overcome.

It offers slightly greater payment convenience, but at what cost?

Even if a company were willing to expunge personal data that it had been authorized to collect, the realities of IT systems mean it probably could never completely do that.

A new call for transparency about what data mobile apps are retaining sounds fine and noble, but too many companies don't even know what their apps know about consumers.

Match.com and eHarmony also among those now saying, 'We didn't know our mobile apps did that.'

You might see security and privacy pitfalls, but the advantages of the Internet of Things mean there's no stopping it. Your smart fridge is going to miss you when you're working every night.

Tech overreach now has its mascot: the True Love Tester bra. How do companies green-light such hare-brained product ideas?

Starbucks released a mobile app that stored passwords in clear text. There's a good chance that a lot of other companies just don't know whether they could find themselves in the same situation.

Why would anyone be comfortable with social networking sites sending out messages in their name?

The company is dancing around the question of what it knew and when it knew it, but the security problem was not a revelation for it this week.

No independent verification yet that the problem has been eradicated.

In a case of convenience for users trumping security, Starbucks has been storing the passwords for its mobile-payment app, along with geolocation data, in clear text.