ANZ is launching a new tactic to protect customers against scammers. The Digital Padlock has been likened to a "kill switch" ...

Stemming from the big red button often found on dangerous machinery that is pressed in an emergency, a "virtual kill switch" is a function in software that shuts down the device. For example ...

New York and San Francisco have also seen drops in phone thefts, with decreases of 16 per cent and 22 per cent respectively. Apple introduced Activation Lock, its kill switch feature, in September ...

But perhaps nothing was as destructive as the "kill switch" Lu designed to shut down everything if he was ever terminated. This kill switch, the DOJ said, appeared to have been created by Lu ...

Lu is accused of creating and implementing a "kill switch" that would lock out all of the company's employees from the network if Lu's credentials were ever deactivated. Prosecutors say Lu named ...