23 June 2022
An analysis of 120 of the world's top-ranked English-language websites has found that many of them allow weak passwords, including those that can be easily guessed, such as “abc123456” and “P@$$w0rd”
17 March 2022
The latest version of UK legislation designed to protect people from "harmful content" online has passed the House of Commons, but critics warn it is likely to have unintended negative consequences
15 March 2022
An amateur army of hackers formed by the Ukrainian government is bringing down the websites of Russian government departments and national banks
27 January 2022
Google has a new plan to replace cookies, the files that track us when we browse the internet, but it is controversial with advertisers and privacy campaigners
13 December 2021
A flaw in a commonly used piece of software has left millions of web servers vulnerable to exploitation by hackers
20 July 2021
Spyware sold for use in anti-terror investigations is reportedly being misused by governments to watch journalists and politicians – Silicon Valley firms are battling to end it
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
16 March 2018
The internet of things is coming thick and fast but so are the warnings that security of devices is poor. The lack of action is alarming, says Paul Marks
15 January 2018
Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected
12 January 2018
Thousands of websites are tricking people into mining cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, adblockers might be the only way to stop them
