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Did you know that cybercrime has gone up by 600% due to the coronavirus pandemic? The highest portion of these breaches occurs in financial businesses and institutes closely associated with financial information. According to data, 71% of…

The metaverse is a concept being talked about as the next big thing by tech companies, marketers, and analysts. It's attracting attention - and money - from some of of tech's biggest names, such as Facebook's Mark…

China's central bank has announced that all transactions of crypto-currencies are illegal, effectively banning digital tokens such as Bitcoin. "Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial…

Microsoft has announced users can now delete all passwords from their accounts and instead login using an authenticator app or other solution. The technology giant made passwordless accounts available for business users…

A news article about a doctor who died after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination was Facebook's most viewed link in the US in the first quarter of 2021, a previously shelved report shows. The piece - updated after a report said there…

July 30 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has been hit with a record $886.6 million (746 million euros) European Union fine for processing personal data in violation of the bloc's GDPR rules, as privacy regulators take a more aggressive…

Apple censors references to Chinese politicians, dissidents and other topics in its engraving service, a report alleges. Citizen Lab said it had investigated filters set up for customers who wanted something engraved…

Google engineers and staff on its ads and Chrome teams have a new monthly meeting on their calendars — with digital publishers. Representatives from around 20 publishers, many from large Comscore 50 media properties, have convened monthly…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Google has been hit with a €500m (£427m) fine by France's competition authority for failing to negotiate "in good faith" with news organisations over the use of their content. The authority accused Google of not taking an order to…

WASHINGTON — The computer code behind the massive ransomware attack by the Russian-speaking hacking ring REvil was written so that the malware avoids systems that primarily use Russian or related languages, according to a new report by a…

Google is being sued by 37 US states over policies on its Android app store, Google Play. The lawsuit claims that the tech giant has used "monopolistic leverage" to generate large profits from purchases made within its own store.…

With time on her hands, 25 year-old Londoner Andreea Ion joined two stock-trading websites at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. "My boyfriend and I were caught in this really small London flat, and just thinking we have to do…

Labour has called for an investigation into ministers' use of private email addresses for government business. It follows a report in the Sunday Times that former health secretary Matt Hancock potentially breached guidelines by…

The European Commission has announced plans to build a Joint Cyber Unit to tackle large scale cyber-attacks. Recent ransomware incidents on critical services in Ireland and the US has "focused minds", the commission said. It…

Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell, just hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges. The Catalan Justice Department said prison…

In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1bn raid on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success - it was only by a fluke that all but $81m of the transfers were halted, report Geoff White and Jean H Lee. But how did one…

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,…

NatWest mobile app users are being directed to a warning screen advising them to beware of cryptocurrency scams. The bank said it had received a "record number" of reports about such scams between January and March 2021. The…

A decryption tool that could enable Irish health authorities to restore data stolen in a cyber attack is being tested. The Irish government has said it could get hospitals and the health care system back to normal sooner.…

Russia's denial of involvement in the SolarWinds hack is "unconvincing", the former head of GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre has said. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) director Sergei Naryshkin had said he was…

Google has unveiled a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions, based on images uploaded by patients. A trial of the "dermatology assist tool", unveiled at the tech giant's annual…

Online seller eBay says it is handing regulators the power to take down dangerous listings without consulting the company. Officials will be able to remove items "where they have evidence of a risk to consumer safety", eBay said.…

Mary-Kate Smith was out kayaking off the coast of Connecticut last August when she overturned. "I was very scared, didn't know what to do, or where to go," she says. Only four months earlier another kayaker had drowned in…

Washington DC's Metropolitan Police Department has said its computer network has been breached in a targeted cyber-attack, US media report. A ransomware group called Babuk is reportedly threatening to release sensitive data on…

A new feature is being introduced to iPhones and iPads this week which is causing a huge rift between Apple and Facebook. It will allow device users to say no to having their data collected by any app. Facebook…

US authorities have arrested a man who allegedly plotted to bomb an Amazon data centre, which he believed would "kill off about 70% of the internet". Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested after receiving a dud explosive device…