She was scolded, her properties weren’t displayed in the front window of the real estate agency, she didn’t get the printouts all the other agents got, and the agency principal’s wife wouldn’t even say good morning. But being unfriended on Facebook? Well, that was just the last straw. In a case brought before Australia’s Fair...

If someone wants to view your photos or contacts on your passcode-protected iPhone they may be able to gain access to the device with Siri. But if the federal authorities in the US want to see the contents of your phone in the old fashioned way – by asking you your password – they won’t get...

We’ve written several reports over the past year about a malware toolkit that uses Microsoft Word as its delivery vehicle. The idea is to package malware inside a Word document in such a way that the file looks innocent, with no macros (Word program code), no embedded programs, or other content that might make a...

You’ve probably heard of “extreme selfies” taken by people snapping photos of themselves in potentially dangerous locations and scenarios. There’s more than 9400 posts on Instagram with the hashtag #extremeselfie, and the trend has only accelerated with the advent of the selfie stick. A lot of these selfies are harmless hijinks, but there’s been a rash of media stories recently concerning people...

Uber users this week have found themselves – or, at any rate, their accounts – magically whisked around the world to ride through the city streets of China. Below are a few tweets from those who’ve found that Chinese fraudsters had used the hacked accounts to take free trips. Kirby Bittner was one such: @Uber...

Heaven knows how you can bootleg a decent quality film when you stick your recording gadget in a popcorn box or cover your mobile camera with a sock to hide its lit screen – wouldn’t an apparently radioactive, glowing sock attract attention? – but that’s reportedly what pirates have been up to. (At least, so...

Watch out, iDevice owners! Siri has opened the pod bay door to let snoopers in. Barely a week after the release of iOS 9, a hacker has found a way for snoops to access your contacts and photos and send messages without your passcode. The bug affects iOS 9 and iOS 9.0.1 on iPhones, iPads and iPods....

Many teens consider online bullying to be worse than face-to-face bullying, a survey of teenagers has found. After all, cyberbullying can happen around the clock, it’s relentless, and it’s driven by crowd behaviour – in fact, you can consider it a horrible manifestation of crowd-sourcing. The survey of 4720 teenagers around the world found that...

Google charges advertisers for YouTube ad views in spite of correctly spotting them as being fake views generated by bots – no human eyeballs involved – a group of European researchers have claimed. The researchers behind the study came to the conclusion that Google does a good job at weeding out bogus YouTube video views...

French citizens now have the ‘right to be forgotten’ worldwide. In rejecting an appeal from Google, the French data privacy regulator, CNIL, has closed a loophole that allowed the company to circumvent a May 2014 ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The ruling allows European citizens to ask search engines not to display specific URLs linked to...