UK police are after cyber snooping powers equivalent to what, in an analog world, would be knowing what magazines you read but not which articles or page numbers. The Investigatory Power Bill, a draft of which had been due to be published this week, is being viewed by many as the latest twist on the...

Jealous lovers or suspicious spouses might be tempted to spy on their significant other’s smartphone – to snoop on texts or phone calls, peek at contacts, or scour the device for files such as photos. Some companies like mSpy and StealthGenie freely market spying apps that help snoopers to do all of those things, and more, without the device user’s...

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...

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...

It could have been just another one of those jostlings that happen on the train: a man bumped into a writer for SC Magazine. Except, as Roi Perez tells it, it all seemed a bit deliberate: the guy slowly bumped into him – and his pocket – for a bit too long. He said that...

The UK broadband and telecom provider TalkTalk has announced a major data breach potentially affecting more than 4 million customers. TalkTalk said there is “a chance” customer data lost in the breach includes vital personally identifiable information: names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, TalkTalk account details and payment card information. The company is...

Every day, federal regulators across the US receive hundreds of complaints about unwanted telemarketing and robocalls and, so far, there appears to have been very little that could be done to stem that tide of nuisance telephony that blights landlines and mobile phones alike. While hefty sanctions may have hit the headlines, and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) competitions...

An Apple store employee in New York has been charged with using bogus credit cards to buy nearly $1 million worth of Apple gift cards. According to a news release put out on Tuesday by Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown, the 24-year-old man from Queens was charged with grand larceny for allegedly re-encoding credit...