Rob Waugh

One of England’s greatest-ever cricketers, Sir Ian Botham, appeared to have been the victim of a Twitter hack yesterday as an obscene picture unexpectedly appeared on the sportsman’s feed.

Online privacy has gone from being a minority concern to something that worries the man in the street - after a study of 2,000 people found a majority believed they were being listened to online, and nearly a third would pay to stop it.

Blackphone, billed as a privacy tool to keep the puplic safe ruled the headlines when it was is hacked in five minutes, Meanwhile, Wi-Fi routers were also shown up - and Android users face a toothy new threat,

Biometrics are touted as a replacement for the passwords and PINs we all know and hate - and Intel’s new earbuds could be the most discreet way of authenticating a user ever.

A new telephone scam in upscale restaurants in London, has “convincing” scammers calling restaurant staff and tricking them into believing there's a problem with the card system - and insisting customers call a bogus phone line.

Two researchers have launched a petition to change how car companies and technology cmpanies work together - with a new villain: in-car web browsers.

The Target breach caused real damage to millions of American card users - but big financial institutions are doing little to remedy security issues by offering extra security such as 2FA.

Researchers flexed their hacking muscles at DefCon 22 to hunt the technology world’s most defenceless beasts - routers. More than a dozen new vulnerabilities were found.

An ultra-secure phone claimed to be the first privacy-focused smartphone on sale swiftly fell victim to a security researcher - who hacked the “super secure” Blackphone in just five minutes.