Ads are larger and harder to dismiss on mobile, they slow down page loading with JavaScript, that in turn leads to burned battery power, they waste the cellular data that many of us have to pay for on a metered basis – and they can be used to deliver malware, exploits and fraud. How does...

Bitcoin payments processor BitPay was spearphished late last year after a hacker gained access to an email account belonging to David Bailey, Editor-in-Chief of digital currency publication Bitcoin Magazine. Not once, not twice, but three times. It all began one day in December 2014 when BitPay’s chief financial officer, Bryan Krohn, received an email that appeared to have...

Apple’s week has been a bit of a curate’s egg. If you’re unfamiliar with that metaphor, it’s a Victorian joke in which a curate, a cleric on the bottom rung of the Church of England hierarchy, is invited to breakfast with the Bishop. When the Bishop apologises that the curate seems to have been served...

Live free or die. That, possibly the most well-known of US state mottos, is declared on vehicle license plates throughout the verdant, mountainous, cantankerous state of New Hampshire. True to that in-your-face independence, on Tuesday evening, in the New Hampshire town of Lebanon, the Lebanon Libraries board unanimously seized freedom and privacy by flipping the...

Google pushed out its first-ever monthly security update for Android in August, fixing the Stagefright vulnerability that an attacker could use to own your device with a malicious MMS message. Nexus devices got their September security update last week, fixing another eight vulnerabilities, including one that could allow an attacker to bypass the lockscreen and access...

Apple iOS 9 is out. As usual when the left-most number changes, as here from version 8 to version 9, the download is bigger than your typical point release. For example, when we recently updated to 8.4.1, the download was about 50MB; this time, the over-the-air (OTA) update we were offered was 1.2GB. → Because...

Snapchat has just released version 9.15 of the popular messaging app, and for the first time it includes a feature that users can purchase in-app. It’s called Replay, and for 99 cents you can replay an additional three snaps per day – additional because users already have the ability to replay one snap per day for...

Among the Republican candidates for US president, Jeb Bush is something of a cybersecurity policy wonk. At least, Bush talks an awful lot about cyber issues, like encryption, the NSA, and the steady onslaught of cyberattacks over the past few years. A few weeks ago, Bush made headlines when he said encryption employed by technology companies is...

– Kim Dotcom as you will find him on Twitter – It seems like ages since we last wrote about Kim Dotcom. Indeed, it is ages – more than a year, in fact – since our previous piece on the larger-than-life online entrepreneur who used to run a website called Megaupload. Megaupload, essentially a file sharing site,...

Yandex – the “Google of Russia” – has prevailed in getting the country’s antimonopoly watchdog agency to rule that Google has abused its dominant position in the market with Android. The agency, FAS, has 10 days to make the details of its decision public, it said in a statement on Monday. Yandex – which operates...