Fueled by the exponential growth in mobile messaging, chatbots — interactive messaging bots that harness recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning — are the hottest new technology going right now. Facebook opened up its Messenger platform to bot developers earlier this year; messaging app Telegram is offering developers up to $1 million in […]

The volume of data breach incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has almost doubled in the space of a year, according to a new Freedom of Information (FoI) request. The figure rose from 1,089 in the period April 2014-March 2015 to 2,048 in virtually the same period a year later, according to Huntsman Security. […]

A police investigation is under way after a passenger plane approaching Heathrow Airport was hit by what is believed to have been a drone. The British Airways flight from Geneva, with 132 passengers and five crew on board, was hit as it approached the London airport at 12:50 BST on Sunday. If confirmed, it is […]

It has emerged that a popular tool meant to ward off malware contained a flaw that put millions of people’s personal data at risk. AVG’s Web TuneUp software is marketed as a free way for users to defend themselves from “hidden threats”. But earlier this month Google’s security team spotted that it was overriding safety […]

When an employee leaves an organisation, voluntarily or not, it’s not uncommon for the organisation to forget to remove their access to systems and accounts. In fact,recent research has found that only 24% of companies follow strict post-employment processes to ensure that employees no longer have access to company-sensitive information once they have left. An […]