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A security firm found that between 75 and 80 percent of the top free apps on Android phones or iPhones were breached

Popular apps on your smartphone can be convenient and fun, but some also carry malicious software known as malware, which gives hackers easy access to your personal information. A security firm found that between 75 and 80 percent of the top free apps on Android phones or iPhones were breached. The number jumps as high as 97 percent among the top paid apps on those devices. Anna Werner takes a look at the hackers’ methods.

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In the latest on the legal standoff between Apple and the FBI, CEO Tim Cook has sent out an email to his company, defending their decision to object to the warrant to open the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists

In the latest on the legal standoff between Apple and the FBI, CEO Tim Cook has sent out an email to his company, defending their decision to object to the warrant to open the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists. CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid joins CBSN to discuss.

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The former director of the NSA and the CIA created and oversaw controversial programs designed to keep Americans safe

A powerful intelligence insider is weighing in on Apple’s standoff with the FBI over unlocking the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. Retired Gen. Michael Hayden says Apple is right in principle, but the government has a point. The former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA created and oversaw controversial programs designed to keep Americans safe. Hayden joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss his new book, "Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror."

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This Justice Department says it would be willing to allow Apple to keep the software of its encrypted iPhones in an effort to hack into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists

This Justice Department says it would be willing to allow Apple to keep the software of its encrypted iPhones in an effort to hack into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. Federal prosecutors describe the tech giant's decision not to unlock iPhone as "a marketing strategy, but Apple says if it did, its customers would lose their right to privacy. The company has until next Friday to reply to the judge's decision. During a campaign stop in South Carolina Friday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in. Jim Axelrod reports.

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