In a lengthy blog post Facebook’s somewhat beleaguered CEO Mark Zuckerberg has committed to end-to-end encryption – so-called ‘Private Messaging’ – across Facebook as a standard feature.
The lengthy blog explains t...
A former TalkTalk customer has found her contacts being bombarded with spam from her old TalkTalk email account, despite closing it down eight years ago. To make matters worse, the broadband provider’s customer service team initially ...
According to a new report from RiskIQ, more than 70,000 people have been tricked into disclosing their personal details after scammers posed as celebrities on YouTube.
RiskIQ said the scam had been running since 2016 and involves YouTube s...
Vodafone has admitted that a ‘technical issue’ is to blame for many broadband customers being unable to stream from popular sites.
Following customer complaints on Vodafone’s own customer forum it was revealed that users were unable ...
After Google admitted it had made a mistake when to failed to mention that its new ‘Nest Guard’ alarm hub included a microphone, the US privacy watchdog, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) has demanded that authori...
From today all broadband shoppers must be told how fast their new service will be before they sign on the dotted line of a new contract. This applies whether people switch to a new provider or change their current package.
The new demand on...
Recently we saw a gathering of the great and the good to a swanky tech conference at Savoy Place in London. Up for discussion was the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Then, with an audience of academics, developers and tech professiona...
The dropping of the three-strike click rule from the forthcoming Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill could leave many of us at risk of prison claim human rights advocates and groups.
The new Bill, which gained Royal Assent this week ...
There it squats, quietly getting on with its job. We hardly ever give it a second thought. No-one’s ever wanted one for a Christmas present nor do we worry over upgrading it the same way we do with other more glamorous devices. And yet wi...
Was your Valentine’s Day memorable? Was it everything you had hoped? For the world’s hackers and attackers, it was. Latest data from Mimecast Threat Labs as well as Kaspersky Labs shows that the romantic day was a fruitful and profitabl...
