Despite measures taken by Facebook to reduce the plague of fake accounts on its platform users are still being targeted by scammers and ‘undesirable’ accounts continue to grow rapidly.
Facebook themselves estimate there are as many as 8...
We’ve all been there. You get a phone call claiming to be from a Microsoft tech support team saying your computer urgently needs fixing. Their persuasive, seemingly legitimate and if you’re not on the ball you can end up with an infecte...
According to cybersecurity researchers at VPN Mentor a million fibre-optic broadband routers contain a critical vulnerability that allows hackers to bypass security and takeover devices. Specifically, the vulnerability enables hackers to by...
BT Openreach has opened consultation talks with communication providers to begin preparations for moving 16 million phone lines to voice-over-IP by 2025.
The huge task is part of BT’s plan to shut down its traditional public switched tele...
According to Ofcom’s annual survey there has been a significant improvement in home broadband speeds but, they say rural areas are still lagging behind.
Ofcom found that the average fixed-line download speeds increased by 28% over the las...
According to Ofcom’s annual broadband and mobile service quality report, one-in-five people were dissatisfied with their broadband service last year, compared to one-in-ten in 2016.
Ofcom polled 6,700 people online about complaint handlin...
2018 has seen Google Pay undergo some radical new features as Google looks to get more people to use its digital payment service. The latest announcement sees Google Pay no longer confined to mobile devices and now available across the web....
It has been 14 years since its launch, but Google has finally rolled-out its new, redesigned Gmail for desktop and mobile in what commentators say is the most significant single upgrade in Gmail’s history.
The redesign offers plenty of ne...
Following their £205 million spend at Ofcom’s recent LTE spectrum auction, O2 has announced plans to enlarge its 4G footprint across the country with 1,000 new sites earmarked.
At the Ofcom auction O2 spent £523.6 million to gain 40MHz ...
According to Adguard Software more than 20 million users of Google Chrome have unwittingly downloaded malicious fake adblockers that are harvesting their personal data.
We all have an abiding dislike of pesky popup ads, so we all turn to in...
