If you’re an IT professional, you know better than anyone else about the concerns that go along with securing a business. Anything and everything from ransomware to phishing emails to lost smartphones – the list goes on and on. But of all the terrors that can plague your organization, which are your top concerns? We...

A woman who blabbed on Facebook about “dying from boredom” while serving on a jury has been slapped with a $1000 fine. Kimberly Ellis, of Queens, New York, was on a jury for a case about a 2014 robbery when she began making detail-filled posts, sometimes twice a day, from a courthouse in the Queens...

Drones: even if they sometimes crash into walls, spark fights in the prison yard or get snagged on barbed wire, they’re still more effective for smuggling contraband than cats. US prisons want to take them out. Drones, not cats. The Federal Bureau of Prisons on Wednesday put out a call for information on integrated systems...

What harm can a selfie do? How much do you really give away if you upload images that contain snippets of information unique to you? Just how much detail can a crook really make out in low-resolution mobile phone snapshot that’s uploaded to a social media site? And even if crooks could dig out all...

How many times does the word “wasted” show up in your social media profiles and posts? What?! You don’t know? Even if you’re not sure of the answer, if you are in the US, looking for credit, there’s now a chance that the companies who assess your creditworthiness will. If you’re planning to get a...

A US man from the state of Pennsylvania – who, evidently, doesn’t quite understand that police use computers and has never heard of Tor – is looking at 2 to 4 years in jail for trying to recruit a cybercriminal to erase his court records and wipe out $16,000 he owed in fines. He wanted...

First, the trick: on Halloween night, PageFair got hit by a Trojan masquerading as an Adobe Flash update. Then, the treat: the company managed to eschew non-apology mumbo-jumbo to issue a detailed, satisfyingly remorseful apology. Beginning late Sunday night, the day after the company discovered the attack, PageFair CEO Sean Blanchfield published a series of updated...

Forum owners and users beware! The website of popular forum software maker vBulletin has been breached. Following claims, nay, boasts, of an attack on Sunday evening, the software developer moved quickly to negate the effects of the hack by releasing a series of security patches on Monday, saying: A security issue has been reported to...

Information about the data breach at UK telecom group TalkTalk has continued to drip out since the company announced a “cyberattack” on its website (on 22 October 2015). Yet, with every new piece of the puzzle, we seem to get no closer to the truth about what exactly happened, who was responsible, and what TalkTalk is doing to fix this...

Thanks to new and upcoming mobile apps, members of the public who feel they’ve been unfairly stopped or even harassed by the police won’t have to rely solely on police records or recordings to make their case. Instead, the apps enable you to monitor how stop and search is conducted, either of yourself or someone else, and helps...