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...

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...