In order to prevent the human race being overrun by robots in the future, scientists are working on a ‘kill switch’ which Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be unable to overrun. The scientists, from Oxford University and DeepMind, the AI division Read more…
A hacking group appears to have gained access to the Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest accounts of Mark Zuckerberg. The co-founder and CEO of Facebook’s accounts were only compromised for a short period of time on Sunday, reportedly, with a Read more…
After being accused of using malware to steal more than £18m (1.7bn roubles), 50 people have been arrested in Russia, believed to be the largest arrest of cyber criminals in the country. The hacking group is thought to have hidden Read more…
Login details for more than 400 million accounts on MySpace and Tumblr, believed to have been stolen in a hack a few years ago, have been put up for sale online. Before MySpace was redesigned in June 2013, it was Read more…
Microsoft has announced that it will be improving account security by banning users from creating weak passwords. This comes in the aftermath of the major LinkedIn data leak recently, with information showing that passwords such as “123456” (the most popular Read more…
A warning has been issued to people who receive an invitation to download and join WhatsApp Gold – which claims to be an exclusive, secret upgrade for certain users – as this new scam actually infects your device with malware. Read more…
A major security breach of LinkedIn in 2012 saw a reported 6.5 million passwords stolen, and the hacker has now put these details up for sale online – but it’s worse than expected. After the leak four years ago, LinkedIn Read more…
A major online hacking forum has been breached by an unknown hacker, with details on 600,000 cyber criminals having now been leaked online. Nulled.io, whose tagline is ‘expect the unexpected’, was hacked earlier this month, with the file containing the Read more…
After carrying out terrifying hoaxes in London, four members of Trollstation, a YouTube channel which performs pranks, have been jailed. The group, which has more than 700,000 subscribers on YouTube, performed a fake kidnapping at Tate Britain in July last Read more…
The planned £10.3bn sale of O2 to the owners of fellow mobile company Three has been blocked by the European Commission. The deal was blocked by Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, arguing that customers in the UK would Read more…