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Graduation is a great time to review your social media profile. Don't let a wild and crazy social network presence undermine the promise of graduation, your chances for a scholarship, job, internship or other career choices.

Newly stolen credit and debit card details, from cards used in P F Chang’s China Bistro, a nationwide American chain of restaurants, went on sale on an underground website this week at a site best-known for selling off the details of victims of the Target data breach.

Fake Twitter accounts may seem harmless, but a lot of them are filled with spam which may contain dangerous links. These simple steps from We Live Security will help you tell the difference between the real and phoney.

A vulnerability in the official Twitter client Tweetdeck left users vulnerable to attack, forcing thousands of users to retweet cryptic lines of code to other users. Twitter repeatedly shut down the service, despite assurances the flaw had been ‘fixed’.

The Bank of England weathers an average of eight cyber attacks including malware-laced “spear phishing” campaigns per week, according to Chief Information Security Officer Don Randall.

With the World Cup in Brazil poised to begin, the whole world is watching - and that includes cybercriminals. Here's the latest on scam sites, phishing and how to enjoy surfing safely during the competition.

A new intelligence-sharing network aims to protect financial institutions by sharing information between government, security firms and financial institutions to “predict” vulnerabilities.

In a world-first case, biometric facial recognition software has been used to convict an armed robber, with a Chicago robber “matched” from CCTV footage to a mug shot, and sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Do you know what ransomware is? Do you know a filecoder from a lockscreen? Read our FAQ to become more clued-up about the ransomware threat, and ensure that your systems are properly protected.