As promised, I’m posting the BBC Click Las Vegas episode where I attempt to explain a futuristic type of encryption tech – Quantum Key Distribution – using ice cream. The [... Read more
Last week I was in Las Vegas for the Infosecurity conferences, BlackHat, Bsides and DEF CON with BBC Click. It was an eye-opening week filled with head-spinning threats and a […] Read more
A groundbreaking initiative bringing together GCHQ and industry expertise to develop new cyber security technology is to be extended. Cutting-edge cyber security entrepreneurs and start-up f... Read more
There are lots of ways to keep tabs on your smartphone. Google recently launched a new feature to help find a lost android phone just by typing ‘find my phone’ […] Read more
If your digital camera has been stolen there might be a way to track it down. Every photo you take contains hidden information called exif data. StolenCameraFinder.com is a simple […... Read more
<EDIT: Further details have been published that suggest this ‘research’ was carried out by OnePoll. While the methodology of this organisation’s research is far from sci... Read more
There are few places left on the planet’s surface where you can get truly ‘lost’, but we still try anyway. No-one wants to ACTUALLY get lost though, which is why […] Read more
Android users should know about device manager, which can be found at https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager, and allows you to locate your phone through a browser. Accurate to within... Read more
Earlier this year daily deals site Living Social suffered one of the worst security breaches of our times, with 50 million encrypted passwords stolen. It’s the kind of number that […] Read more
Phishing, when internet criminals attempt to trick people into giving away sensitive personal details by luring them onto a fraudulent web page, is still one of the biggest online threats [... Read more