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A legal action seeking damages of up to £920m from Google on behalf of 19.5 million UK Android phone users has been launched. It claims the 30% cut Google takes from digital purchases on its app store is excessive and unfair.…

Rip-off websites which charge people for free Covid-19 passenger locator forms feature prominently in Google search results, the BBC has found. Airline Ryanair said passengers should be "extra vigilant" and only download forms from…

An organisation that partnered with Twitter to fight anti-Semitism on the platform has accused the company of "inaction". The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism says Twitter's policies on hateful material are "failing".…

Intel's chief executive, Pat Gelsinger, says the worst of the global chip crisis is yet to come. Mr Gelsinger predicts the shortage will get worse in the "second half of this year" and it will be "a year or two" before supplies…

Let’s face it: the government undoubtedly knows everything about you. Have you forgotten your email password? A criminal hacking group, on the other hand, will often want to monetize its unauthorised access as comprehensively as possible,…

Instagram has made new under-16s' accounts private by default so only approved followers can see posts and "like" or comment. Tests showed only one in five opted for a public account when the private setting was the…

Over-60s who relied on only telephone and online contact felt more lonely during the pandemic, a study suggests. "Virtual contact on its own is not beneficial to older adults' mental health," researcher Dr Yang Hu of Lancaster…

A computer key that can unlock the files of hundreds of companies which were hacked in a large-scale cyber-attack has been obtained. US IT firm Kaseya - which was the first to be targeted earlier this month - said it…

On most video conference calls, only one person gets to speak at a time. It's a deliberate, designed feature of platforms such as Zoom. But as Susan D Blum's linguistic anthropology class found out, it makes having a natural…

People who are desperate for money will seek to criminal means to make money. But keep in mind that haste is a waste of time and can get you into danger. People are developing new techniques to execute fraudulent scams as the world grows…

Do you have a favourite emoji? Maybe it's the wink or the face rolling around with tears of laughter. Perhaps if you're feeling slightly more sardonic, it's the smiling face with jazz hands. With more than 3,000 to choose from,…

A cyber-crime group known as REvil took meticulous care when picking the timing for its most recent attack - US Independence Day, 4 July. They knew many IT specialists and cyber-security experts would be on leave, enjoying a long…

Spanish police have arrested a 22-year-old UK citizen in connection with the hacking of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Kanye West. The hacked accounts tweeted…

A senior US Roman Catholic Church official has resigned after allegations he had used gay dating app Grindr. Roman Catholic newsletter The Pillar alleged de-anonymised data it had obtained showed visits to gay bars and use of the…

In May 2021, Action Fraud UK received 2,110 scam call reports in which the caller’s number matched the first 7 digits of the victim’s phone number. The calls pretend to be from The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) or law…

Zoom is integrating third-party apps into its video conferences, as it looks to stay ahead in the post-pandemic world. It hopes that the addition of apps will "make meetings more engaging, more productive and actually even more…

A group of cyber-security experts is urging companies to set up a way for people to report their workers behaving abusively online. A number of companies have already signed up, two of Respect in Security's founders say. The…

The service said 95% of these users were blocked for violating the limits of the number of times messages can be forwarded in India. The submissions were made by WhatsApp in its first monthly compliance report under India's…

More than 600,000 people using the NHS Covid-19 app in England and Wales were sent self-isolation alerts in the week between 8 and 15 July. Data shows 618,903 alerts were sent - a 17% rise from the previous week. However some…

According to Verizon Business 2020, almost a third or 28% of data breaches in 2020 involved small businesses.The data comes from one of the most acclaimed cybersecurity reports in the industry, the Verizon Business 2020 Data Breach…

China's internet watchdog has ordered some of the country's biggest online platforms to remove inappropriate child-related content. Kuaishou, Tencent's messaging tool QQ, Alibaba's Taobao and Weibo have been summoned by…

Fitness influencer Elle Edwards has spoken to the BBC about dealing with explicit private messages and cyber-flashing - the non-consensual sending of pictures and videos of male genitals. She said that she and many of her peers are forced…

US President Joe Biden has issued a statement clarifying that "Facebook isn't killing people", following his earlier criticism. The president had said "they're killing people" when asked about Facebook's role in the Covid pandemic,…

Apple is delaying the return of staff to its offices, as global Covid cases rise, Bloomberg reports. The iPhone-maker had intended to bring workers in for three days a week from September but this had now been put back until at…

China has slammed "groundless" claims that it carried out a major cyber-attack against tech giant Microsoft. A group of Western countries had accused China of hacking Microsoft Exchange - a popular email platform used by companies…

The UK and EU have accused China of carrying out a major cyber attack earlier this year. The attack targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, affecting over a quarter of a million servers around the world. The EU was the first to…

According to Trustwave, Windows Imaging Format (WIM) files are now being used in phishing attacks. As WIM files aren't typically thought as harmful, it makes it easier for data thieves to exploit them and get past security filters. These…

Twitter has temporarily suspended Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene for posting "misleading" information about coronavirus. The social media giant said her account would be in "read-only mode" for 12 hours. Ms Greene,…

A Mumbai-based businessman was defrauded of Rs 65,000 in yet another terrible case of cyber theft. The event occurred when a 59-year-old businessman attempted to purchase pizza online but got caught in the web of cyber criminals. The…

Facebook is rolling out a way to designate topic "experts" inside user-run Facebook groups. The social network says the new feature is designed to help real experts "stand out" in discussions about their field of expertise.…