A Dutch developer has discovered that 5,925 web shops have been compromised by cyber criminals, who have injected the sites with malicious code to steal customers’ credit card information. Willem De Groot found hackers had been installing skimming scripts onto Read more…
Turn your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 off. That is the message being given by the South Korean technology company, after reports that even ‘safe’ replacements of the smartphone are continuing to catch fire. In September, the tech giant recalled around Read more…
Tech giant Google has revealed its newest smartphones, called Pixel, as well as a voice-activated speaker to challenge Amazon’s Echo. The phones are seen as providing competition to Siri, featuring a new artificial intelligence system known as Google Assistant. They Read more…
Security experts fear many websites are at risk of being taken offline by major cyber attacks, after the computer code used in one of the largest attacks in history was released online. Brian Krebs, a security expert, spotted the source Read more…
The song-identifying app Shazam has finally achieved profitability, as well as passing the one billion downloads mark, the company has revealed. There are 20m people ‘Shazam-ing’ songs each day, according to the company, which sees the app listen to music Read more…
Europol has warned that Android phones may be used by criminals to carry out fraudulent tap-and-go payments in a new report. The EU’s law enforcement agency works with the police forces of member states, and has produced a report to Read more…
A “state-sponsored” attacker stole information on half a billion users after hacking into Yahoo, in what is the world’s biggest ever data breach, the company has revealed. Email addresses, names, dates of birth, phone numbers, security questions and encrypted passwords Read more…
A staggering $3bn (£2.3bn) has been pledged towards medical research by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, with hopes to “cure, prevent or manage all disease by the end of the century”. Speaking together in San Francisco, to an Read more…
Twitter is in the process of introducing changes to its 140-character restriction, which includes images no longer using up any characters, to let users write longer tweets. This update was announced earlier this year, but is only just being introduced Read more…
The latest version of Apple’s operating system, iOS 10, was rolled out yesterday to iPhones and iPads, but some users found it rendered their devices unusable. This situation is commonly referred to as ‘bricking’ – due to the device effectively Read more…