There’s now yet more mystery in the recent Talk Talk “breach” case. Talk Talk is a UK communications company that admitted, about a week ago, that its website had suffered a “significant and sustained cyber attack.” Unfortunately, if all you know is that Something Bad Happened, it’s often very hard to pin down exactly what...

MIT has created a device that can discern where you are, who you are, and which hand you’re moving, from the opposite side of a building, through a wall, even though you’re invisible to the naked eye. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have long thought it could be possible to...

The more cyberthreats spiral, the more cybersecurity pros we need to fend them off. But a new study shows that there are a number of blockages keeping the talent pipeline from being filled. For one, young adults aren’t aware of job opportunities, though they’re generally interested. What’s more, schools aren’t preparing students for the jobs,...

There’s another data breach to report – and it’s a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the “free” web hosting company 000Webhost. The breached data, which includes customer names, emails and plaintext passwords (in other words, the passwords weren’t securely stored), has reportedly been put up for sale on underground markets. What’s worse,...

Action Fraud and the City of London Police have launched a new initiative that aims to separate cybercrime and fraud facts from fiction. Dubbed “Urban Fraud Myths,” the thirteen day campaign kicked off with a look at online dating, a crime which swindled 3543 Brits out of £33.65 million ($51 million) in the last year. Perhaps...

According to the BBC, UK energy provider British Gas has just contacted 2200 customers to warn them that their passwords may have been exposed. Apparently, the email addresses and passwords of affected users showed up on popular data dumping site Pastebin. If the passwords were valid, crooks who downloaded the dumped password data would almost...

OK, so, let me get this straight. I can purchase special candies or win them from the Candy Crush Booster Wheel, like Jelly Fish in jelly clearing boards that clear three pieces from the board at random, or the Coconut Wheel on ingredient-dropping boards that changes three candies in a row into striped candies, or...

Quiz time: You’re waiting for your train. You spot a flash drive on a bench. Do you: Pick it up and stick it into a device? Forensics the living daylights out of it to find the owner, opening text files stored on the drive, clicking on links, and/or sending messages to any email addresses you...

Chat-happy Facebookers rejoice! Speaking with random strangers just became a whole lot easier with a new service called “Message Requests.” No more will your idle Messenger musings be sent to the endless purgatory known as the “Other Inbox” – a place so obscure it didn’t even appear in iOS or Android renditions of the popular social...