This year was a big one for news about threats to our cybersecurity and online privacy. Some of the major stories included big data breaches – such as Ashley Madison, TalkTalk and VTech, plus many more in between – while the political debate over encryption backdoors reached new levels of intensity after the terrorist attacks in Paris. Serious security vulnerabilities in commercial […]

Part of the fun in following the tech scene is that there’s always so much new stuff to read about. And 2015 has been a very busy year indeed. Its highlights have included a series of mega-launches, including the well-received Windows 10, the curved Galaxy S6 smartphone, the Apple Watch and a Tesla car with […]

January 2015 got off to a flying start when it was reported that personalised card company Moonpig’s Android app had a vulnerability that allowed attackers to access users’ accounts just by changing the customer ID number in an API request. Attackers could then place orders on other customer accounts, add or retrieve card information, view […]