| Dec 20 | Taking security seriously. Webcams and digital video recorders under attack. ChatGPT comes to WhatsApp. Artificial immortality. Spying on journalists in Serbia. And the vanishing web. |
| Dec 13 | The killing of a US healthcare CEO. Wrong number scams. Apple Intelligence. Quantum computing. And wicked robots. |
| Dec 6 | US security officials tell Americans to use encrypted messaging. HR dominates phishing lures. Harvesting Bluesky posts for machine learning. Law enforcement celebrates a good week in fight against cybercrime. And the risks of errant voice notes. |
| Nov 29 | Chinese statecraft. "You're fired" phishing scam. Microsoft denies using office apps to train AI models. Swiss church tries out 'AI Jesus.' The risks of a neighbouring WiFi network. And a novel approach to selling cybersecurity services. |
| Nov 22 | Attackers get smart while phishing remains king. Black Friday opportunities for scammers. Critical infrastructure risks. Protecting against government surveillance. Using advertising data to track US military personnel overseas. |
| Nov 15 | The reality of Chinese espionage. Winter fuel payment scam. The impact of AI-generated content on the US election. The problem with poor software design. And refusing health insurance because of genetic data. |
| Nov 8 | The big winner in the US election. Exploiting travel reservations. Trying out ChatGPT's search engine. The sprawling information stealing industry. And how crowds of Dubliners ended up waiting for a non-existent Halloween parade. |
| Nov 1 | US election. Fake shopping sites. Healthcare and AI. Over half of UK adults affected by data breaches. And Lily Allen's pretty profitable feet. |
| Oct 25 | Progress towards improving software quality. Information stealers and what to do about them. An AI assistant that can control your computer - just not very reliably. The US election and disinformation. And the sprawling market in mobile surveillance. |
| Oct 18 | TikTok hoist with its own petard. Oasis scams flood social media. XTwitter will sell user data, like it or not. 23andMe and personal data. And abusive robotic vacuum cleaners. |
| Oct 11 | 23andMe on the ropes. Exploiting natural disasters. Using AI to apply for jobs at scale. The dangers of government backdoors. A framework to check data protection compliance. And Holland to replace its traffic lights. |
| Oct 4 | Replacing passwords. Facebook nonsense. Identifying strangers in public in seconds. Fraud hits one in five Britons. And a handy guide to digital security. |
| Sep 27 | Watching every move we make. O2/Virgin scam. South Korea remakes Minority Report for real. Meta's vision thing. And the problem with connected cars. |
| Sep 20 | Russian disinformation efforts. More warnings about QR codes. Larry Ellison's panopticon. Anonymity online. And visitors caught out by Mexico's limits on computing devices. |
| Sep 13 | Crypto fraud and the third age. Sextortion again. Meta harvests Instagram and Facebook posts. UK crime fighting "on its knees." And more gory details on the US navy crew and their secret Starlink dish. |
| Sep 6 | Disinformation, right-wing influencers and the US election. Sextortion exploits Street View. Criminal use of AI accelerates. And Telegram starts moderating private chats. |
| Aug 30 | The problems with digital wallets. AI's contribution to the growth of digital fraud. Why Telegram is a lousy messaging solution. The bank CEO and a $47 million scam. And the Pentagon turns to Tinder. |
| Aug 23 | The extraordinary scandal of data breaches. Google fails to keep its house in order. Security teams overwhelmed by AI-powered threats. Not so smart keycards. And faking death to evade child support payments. |
| Aug 16 | Data robbers. Phishing for credentials. Trump's AI election gameplan. What to do about software defects. And Safari privacy. |
| Aug 9 | Dangerous misconceptions. Fake ads for Google Authenticator. Surging use of AI to compose phishing emails. Social media and violence in the UK. And exploiting kids online. |
| Aug 2 | The impact of disinformation. Defeating a deep-fake scam. How the online job market was broken. CrowdStrike faces legal action. And judge rules on US border checks. |
| Jul 26 | Failing to learn lessons from failure. A security company hires a North Korean spy. The US investigates surveillance pricing. Using advertising data to track a would-be assassin. |
| Jul 19 | The "biggest cyber incident ever." A calamitous data breach at AT&T. Impersonating HR. Dark Pattterns. Unlocking a shooter's phone. And phasing out one-time passcodes. |
| Jul 12 | Renewed Apple security warnings. Russia disinformation network taken down. 10 billion stolen passwords. And TikTok kids torment teachers. |
| Jul 5 | Shaky foundations. Plane hack. AI's environmental impact. China introduces border checks for electronic devices. And exploiting teenage insecurity. |
| Jun 28 | Tech giants and EU in regulatory arm wrestle. Phishing rises again. The risks of shadow AI. More data breached. Online sleuths. And stealing a Rolls Royce with a text message. |
| Jun 21 | The rotten state of information security. The vile crime of sextortion. AI's impact on work. Spyware manufacturer says high-ranking officials are legitimate targets. And the US bans Kaspersky. |
| Jun 14 | Some common factors behind data breaches. Phishing more than doubles in Europe. The lesser-known bits of Apple's big announcements. Google accused of misleading browser users. Police surveillance in Northern Ireland. And man blames Apple for his divorce. |
| Jun 7 | Why multi-factor authentication should be mandatory. The extent of social engineering. A cautionary tale about trusting AI. An unlikely source of mass disinformation. And what happens when you give Starlink to an isolated tribe in Brazil. |
| May 31 | Spyware out of control in Europe. The evolving risk of QR codes. AI not crap, says Google. Reports of a vast data breach at Ticketmaster. And a scam call centre exposed. |
| May 24 | How to easily track people if you're a nation state. Why multi-factor authentication is so important. Microsoft's all-seeing AI tool. Disinformation at work. And Google shakes our confidence.
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| May 17 | All pervasive AI. How fraudsters are using banking apps in their scams. iPhones bring deleted photos back from the grave. And an ingenious approach to tracking vehicles.
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| May 10 | The problem with VPNs. Hijacking kids' phone numbers. Wide use of AI but little training. Slop is the new spam. Surveilling journalists in Northern Ireland.
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| May 3 | Undermining democracy with disinformation. Scumbags target online daters. The extraordinary capabilities of voice cloning. Human error and data breaches. And the Finnish fraudster who targeted patients at a psychotherapy clinic.
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| Apr 26 | More US moves against spyware vendors. Poisoning Reddit. A passkey primer. The problem with cybersecurity tools. And trying in vain to get Telegram to remove stuff that really shouldn't be there.
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| Apr 19 | Russia's reckless cyber attacks. Romance scammers adopt face swaps. The wave of "pink slime" propaganda. And the annual cost of cybercrime estimated to reach $9.2 trillion this year
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| Apr 12 | Apple warns about "mercenary spyware" while prices for vulnerabilities skyrocket. AI and disinformation. No place to hide in an online world. And the hapless hacker who met his match in Ohio.
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| Apr 5 | The risks of impersonation fraud writ large. Malicious VPN apps. Free advice. And Microsoft slammed for incompetent security.
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| Mar 29 | How to guard against cyber attacks by China...or anyone else. Defeating multi-factor authentication. Deepfakes and stolen identities. Tracking Jeffrey Epstein's visitors through advertising data. And another rescue thanks to Apple's emergency satellite feature.
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| Mar 22 | The state of stalkerware. Recruitment phish. Deep fakes and Telegram. The US case against Apple. Another warning about China's threat to critical infrastructure.
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| Mar 15 | The ongoing security SNAFU at Microsoft. Advances in robotics. Lessons from the German air force...and from "that photo". The extent of spyware use. And the app designed to catch cheating partners.
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| Mar 8 | Voice cloning in spite of controls. Record losses from online crime. Seeking stolen ChatGPT credentials. Spyware platform taken down, again.
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| Mar 1 | What's going on with ransomware. Identity theft. Airbnb scams. On sale to AI. And vending machines with non-consensual facial recognition.
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| Feb 23 | Improving Signal. Chinese cyber tactics revealed. ChatGPT goes bonkers. Takeaways from the LockBit takedown. And Apple says don't use rice to dry a wet device.
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| Feb 16 | Defeating iPhone security. Turning ChatGPT into your personal assistant. European court rules encryption is a human right. And an adult toy user discovers nothing on the web is private.
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| Feb 2 | Lessons from Microsoft's embarrassment. The ongoing shame of deepfake porn. The risks of old routers. Spyware in Jordan. US surveillance. And winning at online poker by shoulder surfing through a window.
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| Jan 26 | The power and perils of advertising surveillance. Attacking web browsers. The unstoppable flood of AI-generated porn. Russia hacks Microsoft. Tech giants kneel before EU regulators. And lessons from a British student's ill-judged joke.
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| Jan 19 | The threat of false information. The impact of AI on phishing lures. LinkedIn as the new Tinder. Harvesting our information. And the devolution of search results.
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| Jan 12 | The real-world impact of XTwitter. China cracks AirDrop. Celebrity fakes. Should ransomware payments be banned. And surviving a three-mile drop test.
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| Jan 5 | Changes to how we're surveilled on the web. Using AI to create targeted emails. A reminder about 'Incognito Mode.' And smartphone use linked to an "unprecedented" drop in academic performance.
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