Google published details of the yet-to-be-fixed bug on Monday after giving Microsoft a week to react. Google said the issue was “particularly serious because we know it is being actively exploited”. Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37833146

MICROSOFT HAS taken the trouble to warn Windows users about an attack that takes what trust people have left in the software and throws it out of the window. The firm explained that the problem involves macros and the use of social engineering. People are tricked into downloading and then enabling malicious content that ultimately […]

A bluetooth system that alerts underground train users to give up their seats for pregnant travellers has been trialled in South Korea. The Pink Light campaign was tested by 500 pregnant women in the city of Busan over a five-day period. The women carried sensors that activated pink lights by priority seats on the Busan-Gimhae […]

Millions of Java users are to be warned that they could be exposed to malware as a result of a flaw that existed in the software’s update tool. The plug-in is installed on many PCs to let them to run small programs written in the Java programming language. Its distributor Oracle has agreed to issue […]