By popular demand, and because we have 20 Dance Like No One’s Watching T-shirts to give away… …here is a #sophospuzzle! Figure out the moves We’ve made the presentation of the puzzle somewhat mysterious, but once you figure out the right dance moves, it should be fairly straightforward. You can work out the answer with...

Threats of violence have led the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) festival to nix two panel discussions about online harassment, organizers announced on Monday. In his post, SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest didn’t go into detail about the threats. But given the names of the panels cancelled, there’s a strong smell of #gamergate in the...

A judge on Monday decided that William Merideth, the Kentucky, US, man who got busted for shooting down a drone that had been flying over his property, had a right to take that thing out. The hearing, in Bullitt County, lasted just over 2 hours. The incident happened in July. Merideth’s sunbathing daughters had come...

UK police have busted nine people over allegedly spoofing phone calls from victims’ banks to drain them of a total of £60 million ($92 million). According to a release from the Metropolitan Police, the gang fooled their marks into handing over confidential information by posing as bank employees on the phone. The UK gang was...

There’s been a lot of strange developments in the days since last week’s cyberattack on UK telecom TalkTalk, which resulted in the theft of vital personal data from an unknown number of TalkTalk customers. First up, the criminal investigation is progressing: the Metropolitan Police announced on Monday, 26 October, that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested “on...

Last week, we wrote a handy article in our new What is… series about Virtual Private Networks. This week, we’re looking at the IoT, or Internet of Things. We decided on the Internet of Things because week 4 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) urged us to be #CyberAware about our Evolving Digital Lives. And those...

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:...