Business>Roundup

Google is giving free physical USB security keys to 10,000 users at high risk of being hacked - such as politicians and human rights activists. The USB keys provide two-factor authentication - an additional layer of security beyond…

IPhone owners should beware picking up bad vibrations from powerful motorbikes, as they may damage camera systems, Apple has said. The technology giant published a warning iPhones should not be attached to powerful…

Epic has launched an appeal against last week's ruling in its case against Apple's App Store policies. On Friday, the court issued a permanent injunction stopping Apple preventing app developers from directing users to…

If a student in London or New York goes online to pay somebody to do their essay, the chances are the work will actually end up being done by somebody in Kenya. BBC Trending reports from Nairobi on the ghost writers helping…

Two employee complaints against Apple are being considered by the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). One alleges retaliation for raising safety concerns, while the other focuses on alleged suppression of…

The head of Iran's prison service has apologised after hackers leaked videos showing the abuse of detainees at Tehran's notorious Evin prison. The hackers released security footage in which guards are seen beating prisoners and…

The Cuban government has introduced new regulations on the use of social media and the internet, which critics say are aimed at stifling dissent. The decrees were published in the wake of the largest anti-government protests to…

Taiwanese chip designer Realtek has warned of four vulnerabilities in three SDKs accompanying its Wi-Fi modules, which are used in almost 200 products made by more than five dozen vendors. The flaws allow a remote, unauthenticated…

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…

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…

More than four in 10 Australians are worried China may attack Australia, according to new polling, expressing a level of fear that is nearly as high as among Taiwan’s population. The Australia…

Executive Summary REvil has emerged as one of the world’s most notorious ransomware operators. In just the past month, it extracted an $11 million payment from the U.S. subsidiary of the world’s largest meatpacking company based in…

Chinese gaming giant Tencent is rolling out facial recognition to stop children playing between 22:00 and 08:00. The "midnight-patrol" technology will stop "tricks" circumventing the government curfew, introduced in 2019 with a cap…

Microsoft has issued a fix for a critical bug dubbed PrintNightmare. It says, hackers are using the bug, accidentally disclosed by researchers. It can help them "install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new…

Audio-edit software Audacity has denied accusations its new privacy policy has transformed it into "possible spyware". The open-source free tool, with 100 million users worldwide, is popular with podcast and music editors. Its…

Social media posts are twice as likely to go viral if they are negative about politicians they oppose rather than positive about those they support, a Cambridge University study suggests. It analysed 2.7 million tweets and Facebook…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden have agreed to develop a cyber-security arrangement between the two countries after discussing the issue of ransomware at their summit in Geneva. Mr Biden says he and Mr…

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…

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…

"The fact you can post a picture on Facebook or video on YouTube and people can see it anywhere in the world is mind-boggling, but it takes a lot of things behind the scenes and below the ocean to make it happen," says Alan Mauldin,…

Eight men have been arrested in dawn raids targeting scam text messages. The suspects were allegedly involved in sending fake messages, primarily posing as Royal Mail and asking people to pay a fee to retrieve a parcel. The…

Campaigners are "astonished" that the government's draft Online Safety Bill does not contain long-promised age verification checks for pornography. Companies have invested heavily in the technology in recent years to prepare for…

Crypto-currency scammers pretending to be Tesla boss Elon Musk have made more than $2m (£1.4m) in just six months, US consumer-protection officials say. The Federal Trade Commission received 7,000 complaints from people who had…

In an exclusive interview with BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has denied that his agency was linked to a massive cyber-attack in the US last year. Sergei Naryshkin was…

Twitter has suspended an account sharing posts from former US president Donald Trump's new communications platform. The account claimed to be tweeting "on behalf" of Mr Trump. A spokesperson for the company said the…

Google has failed to stop "shyster" websites advertising on its search engine, despite promising to fix the problem, the BBC has found. Adverts for unofficial services selling government documents such as travel permits and…

Questions have been raised about a digital addressing system which divides the world up into three-by- three-metre squares to pinpoint someone's location. What3Words (W3W) gives each square a unique three-word address, and the app…

The hype surrounding NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has been hard to ignore. Bright, colourful digital-only art that is selling for millions - who wouldn’t be intrigued? But my first experience of investing in this world was a…

A privacy group has lodged hundreds of complaints against what it calls "cookie banner terror" online. Noyb, headed by well-known Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, is targeting companies which it says deliberately make it…

A landmark case alleging Google illegally tracked millions of iPhone users is set for the Supreme Court. The case will not be about the claim itself but whether the complainant Richard Lloyd - the former director of consumer…