Rob Waugh

Few things are sacred to today’ cybercriminals - and true love certainly isn’t one of them. Dating scams are a fast-growing area of cybercrime - rising by a third year-on-year in some countries, and ranging from fraud, to identity theft to malware attacks. Here's how to stay safe.

The FBI custom-designs malware to snare suspects, a court has heard, and has been able “for years” to watch suspects through PC webcams, a court has heard. The teams operate "like normal hackers" - and rely on phishing and other criminal techniques.

APTs - or Advanced Persistent Threats - are the most menacing cyber attack there is, some say. Built to be stealthy, they penetrate networks, steal secrets - and vanish. 'Catching' one was a little like finding Bigfoot - but the much-hyped threat wasn't quite so scary up close...

As wireless technologies and electronic controls are increasingly built into cars, vehicles could become vulnerable to hackers - either stealing information, or injecting malware, a U.S. Senator warned - inspiring debate on how real this threat is.

Microsoft's telepathic power, of course, comes from AI, not magic, and illustrates very clearly which passwords are easy for a computer to “guess” - the tool Telepathwords, guesses the next letter as you type in a password.

For years, "encryption" has sounded like James Bond technology to many PC users - but new systems have made "crypto" technology easier to use, and a great way to protect the files you REALLY value.

Only weeks after Microsoft unveiled a global Cybercrime Center armed with new, hi-tech tools to combat crime, it announced it had carried out a global action leading to "significant disruption" of the Siferef botnet, a network controlling up to two million "zombie" PCs.

A vulnerability in Android could allow attackers to “unlock” phones without cracking PIN codes - using malware to deactivate Google’s locks on handsets and tablets. The vulnerability can “turn off” all locks a user puts in place.

Personal information for up to 465,000 customers of JP Morgan, Chase & Co. may be at risk after hackers breached its network in July, the bank has admitted. Some reports claim that hackers had access to unencrypted, private information.