Fact or Fiction

More than a third of people polled believe that cacti absorb harmful radiation. Strong electric fields are indeed harmful, but cactus protection works very differently to how you imagined.

There’s no malware in the official Android store, right? We get to the bottom of this claim.

Some say you can get malware on your iPhone simply by visiting a dangerous Web page. We examine the rumor to get at the truth.

Does saying “hyphen” five times to your iPhone really crash it — or is that just another myth?

Rumor has it that typing “BFF” as a Facebook comment checks your profile security. We investigate the claim.

Most computer infections come from visiting porn sites, or so some people say. Are they right?

Do ATMs employ a secret trick to call the police, and should you trust anything written in CAPS?

A virus damaging hardware is one of the most widely believed myths in the infosec domain. And, at the same time, it’s the most non-standard one. And it’s not totally a myth, after all.