A new security company known as Zerodium has come up with a 7-figure way to make a very loud splash as it enters the field. It’s got $1 million (about £651,000) in bug bounty money burning a hole in its pocket, and it’s looking to spend it on what’s thought to be the biggest bounty...

You’ve probably read all sorts of to-and-fro about Apple’s App Store this week. Until now, the App Store has been to the malware scene what the planet Earth was to Douglas Adams’s HHGttG: Mostly harmless. That changed a few days ago, when Palo Alto networks published a series of articles about malware that had shown...

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...

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...

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...

This week has already been a roller coaster ride for ad-block users – between Apple promising to open the flood gates to ad-blocking in the Safari browser on upcoming iPhones and iPads, and Chrome users groaning after it looked like Google was cutting the knees off AdBlock and forcing them to sit through video ads...