Tips & advice

You may know it by one of many names: EMV, Integrated Chip Cards, or more simply Chip & Pin or Smart Cards… but whatever you call it: it is a hot topic for debate on the subject of credit card fraud. In this post we will explain the difference between these and traditional credit cards, and why it is being discussed so heatedly in the wake of the Target breach.

Apps designed to ‘report’ on handset users’ communications while remaining undetected have increasingly become a factor in cases of domestic violence and even murder.

Malware written specifically for DVR recorders used for the output of surveillance cameras has forced some machines to mine Bitcoin - although the low-powered machines are 'very bad' miners, Wired points out.

If computers continue to run Windows XP, and don't receive any more security patches. they are not just putting themselves and the data they carry at risk, they are endangering all of us who use the internet.

An attack on the forums for the Boxee internet-TV service has yielded 158,000 customer passwords - and what appears to be email addresses and full messaging histories for the victims.

A new Harris poll shows that revelations about the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance activities are changing online behavior for many Americans and some say they are doing less online banking and less online shopping because of what they have learned about the NSA.

Microsoft will cease providing security updates for the Windows XP operating system on April 8, 2014. If you cannot get away from Windows XP yet, there are still a few things you can do to keep yourself safe.

Will the future be a murderous game of 'smart device' Cluedo, where Colonel Mustard meets his death at the hands of a Wi-Fi pacemaker, and Miss Scarlett is consumed in a Smart Home-ignited blaze. Not likely, says David Harley - where's the profit motive?

Hackers could take control of Philips ‘smart TVs’ and broadcast their own ‘shows’ to watching famlies, thanks to a ‘fixed’ password which allows nearby attackers easy access to the set’s Wi-Fi adapter.