“I had a best friend and we got into this really big fight online,” says Emma, aged 14. 1 In less than three minutes, Emma describes how a falling out between teenagers escalated into cyberbullying: After an argument, Emma’s best friend began sending her nasty messages via both social media sites such as Facebook and … Read More.

Many of us take great care to vet our social media profiles and to protect our privacy by increasing our security settings. Little do we know that there are websites that gather seemingly hidden and unfound information about our lives to create “profiles” or search results for anyone to find. People Search Engines reveal everything … Read More.

If we didn’t know if before, we definitely did by the end of 2014: hacking and cybercrime are on the rise, and all of us are at risk. From the nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, to Sony’s private staff emails, to stolen credit card details, 2014 was filled with some of the biggest and most … Read More.

Public wifi is not safe and neither is it secure. As an experiment, one journalist took a hacker to a café to see just what damage he could do by hacking into the public wifi. Within 20 minutes the hacker knew the names, passwords and personal lives of almost everyone around them. He knew everything … Read More.

After the iCloud hacking scandal, Apple introduced a two-step login process designed to stop brute force attacks (attacks where hackers try to guess your password). However, as expected, hackers soon found a new tool to overcome this problem. The chances of hackers being able to hack your iCloud account by brute force are significantly higher … Read More.

The Sony servers were hacked at the end of 2014, exposing employees’ private work emails and personal information, gender pay gap problems, and some of the juiciest and most damaging Hollywood gossip ever revealed to the public. It has been speculated that North Korea was responsible for the hacking, possibly in response to the upcoming … Read More.