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Two months after Amazon announced that Skype video calling would become available on its Echo Show smart display, Microsoft has brought Skype calling—audio and video—to the Alexa platform. “Use Alexa to call friends and family on Skype or call mobiles and landlines in...

Two men who admitted their part in the October 2015 data breach of internet service provider (ISP) TalkTalk have been jailed. Matthew Hanley of Tamworth pleaded guilty to offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in April 2017 for his role in the attack and received...

2018 has seen a major divergence in the operation of ransomware: targeted versus ransomware as a service (RaaS). Two particular malware families have dominated each branch: SamSam (targeted) and GandCrab (RaaS). Targeted seeks high ransoms from relatively few victims,...

Security researchers claim over 100,000 sites potentially affected, with the vulnerability available for attacks for weeks A privilege escalation flaw in a WordPress GDPR compliance plugin has exposed over 100,000 websites to attack. According to a post on security...

Japan's new cyber-security minister has dumbfounded his country by saying he has never used a computer. Yoshitaka Sakurada made the admission to a committee of lawmakers. "Since I was 25 years old and independent I have instructed my staff and secretaries. I have...

Data can provide information, information can lead to insight and knowledge, and knowledge is power. It’s no wonder, then, that seemingly everybody in this modern, computerised world of ours loves to suck data from everyone and everything. We are getting used to it,...

Almost as soon as email became widely used, crooks and scammers began using it as a means to defraud people. In today’s world, malicious fake emails continue to be a huge problem for individuals and businesses. Businesses make lucrative targets Losses due to Business...

On Monday Amazon launched the Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs via the Microsoft Store. The app allows you to use Alexa as you would on Echo devices like playing music or audiobooks, checking your calendar, creating reminders, controlling smart home devices…etc. It is...

Google has announced that, starting from Chrome 71, users will be explicitly warned when attempting to visit pages that try to trick them into signing up for mobile-based subscription services. The warning Pages that ask for users’ mobile phone details but show no...

DigiCert has executed a transfer of online trust, marked by the stable release of Chrome 70 that signals the end of Google’s Symantec root distrust plan. In the year since acquiring Symantec’s Website Security and PKI businesses, DigiCert has managed a certificate...