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...

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...

Last week was week four of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) and the theme was Your Evolving Digital Life. It’s an important theme because, in case you hadn’t noticed, your digital life is evolving, and fast. The vast international network of computers we call the internet is gobbling up a lot of new things that didn’t used to be computers like fridges,...

Move over, Naked Security’s video on how to Pick a Proper Password! Step aside, XKCD’s harder-than-you-think Correct­Horse­Something­Something. There’s a new sort of password in town: the iambic tetrameter. In a word, poetry. To explain: an iambus is a rhythmic unit in verse that consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed one. Like this:...

Back in December last year, Facebook introduced keyword searching on your or your friends’ past posts. So if you wanted to quickly find your wedding photo album, or a recipe your friend posted for chocolate chip cookies, then there was no more trawling through months and years of posts to find it. You could also...