Apple CEO Tim Cook gets a big bump in pay, use of private aircraft

For Apple CEO Tim Cook, fiscal year 2017 brought good tidings in the form of a hefty 47 percent pay increase and use of a private aircraft. Apple's CEO since 2011 saw his salary rise to about $12.8 million in fiscal year 2017, which ended in September, from about $8.7 million in the prior fiscal year, according to a SEC filing from Apple on Wednesday.

Another mass shooting, another locked phone

When Susan Landau decided to write "Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age," it was at a time when encryption was on many people's minds. After a shooter in San Bernardino, Calif., killed 14 people, investigators were unable to get into his iPhone.

iPhone Call History Saved to iCloud

Apple customers can sync a lot of the data on their devices to iCloud, but some information is being backed up in a way they might not be aware of and can't control: their iPhone call logs. Moscow-based digital forensics firm ElcomSoft reported yesterday that it discovered Apple was automatically uploading iPhone call logs into iCloud for users running iOS 8 and up on their devices.