A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one ...

One of the world’s largest online travel agencies, Booking.com, is being used by fraudsters to trick hotel guests into handing over their payment card details. How do I know? The fraudsters tried it ...

LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions – on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ...

A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – ...

QR codes are being weaponised by scammers — so maybe think twice before scanning that parking meter. And in a blunder so dumb it makes autocorrect look smart, the White House explains how it leaked ...

A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice’s Piazza San Marco – and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price? A frankly insulting ...

The company has kicked out thousands of its engineers (as well as thousands of the contractors responsible for battling misinformation and harmful content.) Meanwhile Twitter’s CISO and head of Trust ...

Why is a cute Star Wars fan website now redirecting to the CIA? How come Cambodia has become the world’s hotspot for scam call centres? And can a WhatsApp image really drain your bank account with a ...

UK charities including Shelter, the RSPCA, the Dogs Trust, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, and Friends of the Earth have warned their supporters that hackers have stolen their data following a breach at ...

iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there’s a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the ...

Renowned cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt falls victim to a phishing attack, resulting in the exposure of thousands of subscriber details, and don’t lose your life savings in a whisky scam… All this and ...

In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware — exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can ...