Savvy online shoppers have long seen the value in independent reviews, left by other consumers, of the products and services they are interested in buying. Stripped of hyperbole and marketing speak, the opinions of others have proven to be a powerful tool in influencing purchasing decisions. But not all reviews are created equally. Some unscrupulous companies...

It could have been just another one of those jostlings that happen on the train: a man bumped into a writer for SC Magazine. Except, as Roi Perez tells it, it all seemed a bit deliberate: the guy slowly bumped into him – and his pocket – for a bit too long. He said that...

Last week was week four of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) and the theme was Your Evolving Digital Life. It’s an important theme because, in case you hadn’t noticed, your digital life is evolving, and fast. The vast international network of computers we call the internet is gobbling up a lot of new things that didn’t used to be computers like fridges,...

Move over, Naked Security’s video on how to Pick a Proper Password! Step aside, XKCD’s harder-than-you-think Correct­Horse­Something­Something. There’s a new sort of password in town: the iambic tetrameter. In a word, poetry. To explain: an iambus is a rhythmic unit in verse that consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed one. Like this:...

The UK broadband and telecom provider TalkTalk has announced a major data breach potentially affecting more than 4 million customers. TalkTalk said there is “a chance” customer data lost in the breach includes vital personally identifiable information: names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, TalkTalk account details and payment card information. The company is...

Every day, federal regulators across the US receive hundreds of complaints about unwanted telemarketing and robocalls and, so far, there appears to have been very little that could be done to stem that tide of nuisance telephony that blights landlines and mobile phones alike. While hefty sanctions may have hit the headlines, and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) competitions...

Back in December last year, Facebook introduced keyword searching on your or your friends’ past posts. So if you wanted to quickly find your wedding photo album, or a recipe your friend posted for chocolate chip cookies, then there was no more trawling through months and years of posts to find it. You could also...

An Apple store employee in New York has been charged with using bogus credit cards to buy nearly $1 million worth of Apple gift cards. According to a news release put out on Tuesday by Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown, the 24-year-old man from Queens was charged with grand larceny for allegedly re-encoding credit...

Two troublesome words tucked into proposed US legislation related to cybersecurity for cars and trucks could have some unintended consequences for vehicle security if it ever becomes the law of the land. Car hacking has attracted increased scrutiny from lawmakers in recent months, after researchers disclosed security vulnerabilities in several Fiat Chrysler models, causing the car maker...

Thank goodness TMZ revealed that the Hollywood Life UNTOUCHED AND PRE-PHOTOSHOP images of Kim Kardashian’s butt-baring photo from Paper magazine last year were fake. Otherwise, how would we possibly have been able to tell, simply by looking at images like this, this, or this, that the image had been manipulated? (Note: A spokesperson for Paper...