MIT has created a device that can discern where you are, who you are, and which hand you’re moving, from the opposite side of a building, through a wall, even though you’re invisible to the naked eye. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have long thought it could be possible to...

Action Fraud and the City of London Police have launched a new initiative that aims to separate cybercrime and fraud facts from fiction. Dubbed “Urban Fraud Myths,” the thirteen day campaign kicked off with a look at online dating, a crime which swindled 3543 Brits out of £33.65 million ($51 million) in the last year. Perhaps...

According to the BBC, UK energy provider British Gas has just contacted 2200 customers to warn them that their passwords may have been exposed. Apparently, the email addresses and passwords of affected users showed up on popular data dumping site Pastebin. If the passwords were valid, crooks who downloaded the dumped password data would almost...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Facebook has announced that it will notify users it suspects are being targeted by nation states and urge them to take extra security precautions. Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, explained the new notifications in a 16 October blog post, saying users will only receive the warnings if Facebook has strong evidence suggesting they are...

If you were one of the few, er, lucky Facebook users to get a peek behind the curtain to see how popular your posts are, you’re probably already aware that you aren’t exactly … how shall we put it? Upworthy. Oh well! On Wednesday, some users discovered a bug that affected Facebook’s mobile site –...

Personal assistants on smartphones – Siri on the iPhone, Google Now on Androids, and Cortana on Windows Phone – allow us to do a lot of things with only a voice command. We can make calls, send text messages, do web searches, and much more. But what if someone else could make your phone do...