Rob Waugh

Microsoft rushed out an emergency security fix for Internet Explorer, to fix a flaw which hackers had already exploited - affecting IE versions 6 to 11 on several versions of Windows.

The key to a good cyber defense strategy is to improve knowledge of current threats, and risks to businesses, according to law enforcement professionals speaking at London’s Infosecurity Europe 2014 conference in London.

At 15 payment machines dotted around the Swedish city of Lund, people can buy items without needing a card - or a phone equipped with a “Near Field” chip. All that’s required are the correct veins.

Samsung has upstaged rival Apple with a fingerprint-locked version of the password-vault app LastPass for its flagship Samsung Galaxy S5, available free on Google Play from today. One swipe unlocks ANY app or site on the phone.

Anyone with an AOL email address was urged to change their password and security questions this week after a cyber attack which compromised a "significant number of user accounts" - quoted by news agency Reuters as around 2% of all AOL accounts.

Parents who simply hand an iPhone or iPad to a child and let them play a favorite game risk children buying expensive in-game items. But the new version of iOS has some great defenses built in.

Many mainstream news outlets offered advice on dealing with the Heartbleed bug - some misleading. This week, a spoof video has finally cut to the heart of the matter, and offered the worst advice imaginable on how to deal with the bug.

Posts promising gruesome footage of a roller coaster accident at Universal Studios in Florida in which 16 people supposedly died are spreading fast on the social network - with victims fooled into spreading the scam to their friends.

Microsoft announces a zero-day security flaw in many versions of Internet Explorer, the first to hit Windows users since XP support was terminated on April 8, potentially crippling IE on XP systems.