Security & Privacy

The Supreme Court has heard whether data breach victims must show 'serious' harm before claiming compensation. The answer will shape what you can do the next time a company leaks your details.

Hackers used the Asos app to send customers a ransom note on 6 October. The way in appears to be a tricked employee and a third-party AI marketing tool, not Snowflake. Here's what UK shoppers should do.

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days run on 6 and 7 October. Amazon impersonation attacks are up 188%, and AI is making the fake emails harder to spot. Here's how to shop safely.

Revolut handed customer ID documents to fraudsters posing as a government agency, then old trading records leaked from its former US broker. Its systems weren't breached. That's the worrying bit.

HSBC UK has blocked its Android banking app from running inside Samsung Secure Folder and Android Private Space, without warning. Some customers lost access to online banking too.

Google's Gemini got into three real companies during a botched security test, and OpenAI's agents spent months probing databases. The UK law on hacking wasn't written for machines that do it by accident.

Motorola's Signature 27 will be the first non-Pixel phone to support GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android. It arrives as the UK leans harder on Apple and Google to police our phones.

Code in a test version of iOS 27.2 shows Apple working on AutoLock, which locks an iPhone when it senses a snatch. It isn't live yet, but in phone-theft Britain it can't come soon enough.

An Australian researcher took control of a BYD Shark 6's lights, wipers, locks and microphone. The same pickup goes on sale in the UK this year, just as new car cyber security rules bite.

Ofcom is investigating two internet phone providers, Vonage and Voxbone, over whether scammers are using their numbers. It's a shift from chasing fraudsters to chasing the companies that hand out the numbers.