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"Follow the money" - for generations it's been the mantra of investigators looking for criminals. In the cyber-realm, this battle between criminals and the authorities has been raging for years. Despite the anonymous nature of…

Cesar David Gonzalez does a bit of everything, from house painting to carpentry. The self-employed 56-year-old lives in the San Fernando Valley, one of the hottest parts of Los Angeles. He works six or seven days a week, even when…

Instagram's owner Facebook has reversed a ban on a poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's new film, showing a nipple producing a drop of milk. Javier Jaen, who designed the advert for Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers), had…

TikTok has announced a series of changes it says are designed to protect its teenage users' wellbeing. Users aged 12-15 will not receive push notifications from 21:00 - and for 16- and 17-year-olds, from 22:00. This is to help…

An innocent campaigner arrested after downloading and tweeting documents he says he found in a Google search, says the experience was "horrendous". Police suspected Robert Hutchinson had breached the Computer Misuse Act by…

Text messaging is one of the most widely used forms of communication today. Text messages are now deeply rooted in our culture. We use them to communicate with friends and family, keep in touch with co-workers, and seek advice from the…

Parents will now be able to have images of their children removed from Google search results, the company has said. It came as Google announced a range of changes to child-safety measures across several of its products. It will…

A Twitter image-cropping algorithm prefers to show faces that are slimmer, younger and with lighter skin, a researcher has found. Bogdan Kulynyc won $3,500 (£2,530) in a Twitter-organised contest to find biases in its cropping…

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts which it says were involved in anti-vax disinformation campaigns operated from Russia. The company said the network of accounts targeted India, Latin America and the US. They attempted…

The pandemic is starting to wear off slowly but gradually, and more and more individuals are on the move. People are more confident to go out there as the number of vaccinations provided continues to rise. Unfortunately, hackers have…

A previously undocumented Android-based remote access trojan (RAT) has been found to use screen recording features to steal sensitive information on the device, including banking credentials, and open the door for on-device fraud. Dubbed…

Apple is facing criticism over a new system that finds child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on US users' devices. The technology will search for matches of known CSAM before the image is stored onto iCloud Photos. But there are…

Facebook's decision to block access to some academics researching political ads and disinformation has been criticised by UK and US politicians. Damian Collins MP accused Facebook of shutting down legitimate research to protect its…

The digital version of The New York Times (NYT) daily crossword puzzle will no longer be available in third-party apps from next week. Instead the crosswords will only be accessible digitally through the publication's own website…

People download and install thousands of apps from the Google Play store for various purposes. There are, however, some Android apps in the Play Store that can be harmful to your device. If you're not careful, these apps can steal your…

An Instagram post by TV star Lauren Goodger has been banned because she didn't clearly mark it as an advert. Lauren, 34, had been paid for the post, which promoted a foreign exchange - or forex - trading tips service.…

Cybercrime has reached new heights, costing businesses and individuals billions of dollars each year. What's scarier is that this statistic only covers the last five years, with no end in sight. Because of the advancement of technology and…

At first the video seems to be just an ordinary guy in a tracksuit, miming a rap song on his phone. But then British swimmer Adam Peaty whips out his Olympic gold medal. And the crowd, in the comments section, goes wild.…

A row has blown up between Facebook and academics over the use of its data for reporting trends on the social network. Members of the Cybersecurity for Democracy team, based at New York University, tweeted they had had…

WhatsApp is rolling out a feature that allows users to have photos or videos vanish after they are seen. After the recipient opens the image for the first time, "view once" deletes it, without saving it to a phone. WhatsApp…

People in the United Kingdom should be on the alert for a new SMS scam. Messages are sent to a number of people notifying them of a missed call. According to the text, the caller has left a message.The message asks the individual to…

Gangs are using e-scooters to sneak on to UK farms and steal high-value GPS technology, an insurer has said. NFU Mutual said the cost of replacing the stolen equipment that forms an "essential part of modern farming" nearly doubled…

Major social media platforms fail to take down more than 80% of anti-Semitic posts on their platforms, a new report claims. The Center for Countering Digital Hatred (CCDH) said it reported more than 700 posts containing "anti-Jewish…

Parents now have more technology-based tools than ever before to assist them in caring for their children. However, as modern technology advances, the possibility of hacking and security flaws increases. Cybercriminals may access your data…

Big tech firms are altering their return-to-work plans for employees, as Covid-19 cases rise in the US - with some stipulating that staff working in the office must be vaccinated. Google announced that it would delay a return to the…

A former eBay security supervisor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for cyber-stalking a couple critical of the company. The Massachusetts couple wrote and published an online newsletter that covered eBay and other…

Identity theft conjures up frightening imagery, but what does it mean to have your identity stolen? You don't have to be afraid about being digitally replicated as a robot. That is not the case. The true repercussions of identity…

Even though WhatsApp claims to be a secure network, its users have been targeted by the Pegasus spyware, which is alleged to have been developed by an Israeli cyber technology corporation. The attack appears to have been directed at…

Staff at US gaming giant Activision Blizzard have staged a walk-out over accusations of sexism and harassment. The company behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft was sued last week by the state of California over alleged…

Regulator Ofcom has announced Anna-Sophie Harling will be its online safety head, dealing with how the tech giants regulate harmful speech. She will be in charge of implementing the Online Safety Bill, due to come into effect later…