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UK adults spent an average of three hours and 47 minutes online every day during the pandemic, an annual survey of media habits by regulator Ofcom has found. That was over an hour longer than adults in Germany, France and Spain.…

Apple has paid a multi-million dollar settlement to a woman whose photos and videos were shared online by technicians repairing her iPhone. Explicit images and videos were uploaded to Facebook and other places, and made to look as…

A record number of fake online pharmacies were shut down in May as part of a global crackdown. More than 100,000 online marketplaces offering illicit drugs were removed as part of Interpol's Operation Pangea. In the UK, fake…

An encrypted phone service called Anom was secretly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a yearslong international sting operation. Law enforcement agencies across Europe, the US, and Oceania revealed Anom’s origins earlier today,…

The US has recovered most of the $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom paid to a cyber-criminal gang responsible for taking the Colonial Pipeline offline last month. DarkSide - which US authorities said operates from eastern Europe and…

Apple device users will now be able see when individual apps request to access features such as the microphone, camera and phone gallery, plus which third parties they have connected with in the last seven days. The new "app…

The famous Photographic film company, Fujifilm Corporation has confirmed that it had suffered from a Ransomware attack that disrupted it’s business operations. On 1st June 2021, the company took a decision to shut down all networks and…

UK online daters will be able to choose to display a badge on their profiles to show if they have been vaccinated against Covid or support the jab drive. However there will be no way of verifying whether those displaying the badge…

A social media account for popular Chinese e-commerce app Xiaohongshu has been blocked after it issued a post on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. It had posted "Tell me loudly: what's the date…

The government is proceeding with the creation of a central store of data from GP records in England next month, despite the NHS suggesting a delay. The data is moving to a central NHS Digital database, with the Department of…

India's Karnataka state says it plans to send a legal notice to Google after it showed the state's official language as the "ugliest language in India". A Google search with these keywords on Thursday showed Kannada as the top…

Scammers are continuing to target WhatsApp users and hijack their accounts, by posing as a friend and asking for SMS security codes. The scam has existed for years but has continued to catch people out, with victims…

Microsoft blamed an "accidental human error" for its Bing search engine not showing image results for the query "Tank Man". The phrase relates to the iconic image of a lone protester standing before tanks in China's…

Apple has released a software update for AirTags following concerns they could be used to track people secretly. AirTags were released in April and were promoted as a way for people to keep track of their belongings.…

In a surprise move, one of the world's best-known anti-virus software makers is adding cryptocurrency mining to its products. Norton 360 customers will have access to an Ethereum mining feature in the "coming weeks", the company…

Twitter is launching its new subscription service, Twitter Blue, in Australia and Canada on Thursday. The paid-for extra service will add features such as an "undo tweet" button, bookmarks, and a reader mode, Twitter said.…

The Conservatives have been fined £10,000 by the data watchdog for sending marketing emails to 51 people who did not want to receive them. The messages were sent in the name of Boris Johnson in the eight days after he became prime…

Google has removed its head of diversity over a 2007 blog post that said Jewish people had "an insatiable appetite for war and killing". In a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resurfaced this week,…

The world's largest meat processing company has been targeted by a sophisticated cyber-attack. Computer networks at JBS were hacked, causing some operations in Australia, Canada and the US to temporarily shut down, affecting…

Employees at US Amazon warehouses are injured at a higher rate than those doing similar jobs at other companies' warehouses, a new report has found. A union-backed study of safety data found Amazon workers had 5.9 serious…

As football rivalries go, the one between Chile and Argentina is up there among the fiercest. So it should come as no surprise that when Chile's national team saw a drone hovering above a training session, it suspected its rival…

British subscription site OnlyFans is failing to prevent underage users from selling and appearing in explicit videos, a BBC investigation has found. Under-18s have used fake identification to set up accounts, and police say a…

New terms of use for eBay have come into effect which mean the online auction house will now pay sellers directly rather than through PayPal. PayPal was acquired by eBay in its early days in 2002, and the two firms have worked in…

A couple have been left "heartbroken" after being tricked out of their savings in a Royal Mail text scam. Tom and Freyja Cuff, from Frome, Somerset, received a text about a parcel collection which eventually led to their bank…

Some people use Twitter to live tweet Love Island. Others use it to complain that their Deliveroo order arrived cold. A lot of the time, we fire off tweets or stick up Instagram stories without a second thought. But what if…

Amazon plans to put "wellness chambers" in its warehouses so that stressed workers can sit inside and watch videos about relaxation. In a video shared on its Twitter account, Amazon said the "AmaZen" chamber would help staff focus…

In a residential street in south London, dozens of household appliances are being put through their paces - not to measure how well they work, but how loud they sound. The room we're in is officially a laboratory. There's no…

Instagram is changing the way it showcases content after being accused of suppressing pro-Palestinian messages during the recent Gaza conflict. The app had favoured original content in its "stories" feature over existing,…

A leading legal expert is warning of an "epidemic" of sexual abuse where images of people's faces are merged with pornography and made available online. Deepfake pornography is where computer technology is used to…

A new software update for Tesla cars appears to include monitoring of drivers through the car's internal cameras when Autopilot is in use. The "self-driving" feature requires drivers to pay attention at all times, but has been…