30 September 2020
Zoombombing, a kind of virtual gatecrashing that has been used to spread harassment and hate speech, has become a serious problem during the pandemic. An analysis of this behaviour shows the majority of Zoombombers get access from insiders rather than...
23 March 2019
The Wannacry attack locked down NHS computers in 2017. Now an investigation has uncovered thousands of unpatched vulnerabilities on UK government websites
15 January 2018
Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected
18 October 2017
The KRACK vulnerability is bad news for Android and Apple now, but long-term consequences are in store for the internet of things
9 August 2017
A new way to run the internet would scupper ransomware and hacking, but its authoritarian backers could control everything we do online
27 June 2017
Chocolate company Cadbury’s, Danish shipping giant Maersk and Ukraine’s national bank are among those affected by a new global ransomware outbreak
