Rob Waugh

Keypic uses an image - usually an advert, but it can be a single pixel, an animation, or anything the site’s administrator wants - and checks for typically “human” behavior. It’s already used on nearly 6,000 sites, and is available as a plug-in for WordPress and Drupal.

Half of the world's 50 biggest banks have faced security incidents affecting their web applications. Fifteen per cent of those incidents were classified as “high” or “critical” risks, a new study has revealed.

Hackers have accessed full card details for at least 376,000 people in a cyberattack on a “reward scheme” company, Loyaltybuild - as well as phone numbers and addresses for more than a million others.

Facebook users who used the same email and password on their Adobe and Facebook accounts have been offered a helping hand by Facebook in the wake of the recent massive breach at Adobe, which leaked account data for 38 million users.

More vulnerabilities have been discovered in a D-Link router, leaving the device vulnerable to attacks via its web interface - only weeks after the discovery of a "backdoor" in other D-Link devices.

One of the largest cyber 'war games' ever created tested thousands of banking staff across London’s investment banks against the ‘worst case scenario’ - a major cyber attack on stock exchanges.

American PC users are being hit with a new wave of Filecoder ransomware, which locks access to computers and demands $300 - with a ticking timer before files are locked forever, according to US-CERT.

A cyberheist targeting a bitcoin "bank" website has netted thieves more than 4,100 bitcoins, worth $1.2 million. The hack is among the largest thefts in the currency’s four-year history.

The system relies on users describing patterns of blots, then matching descriptions to patterns - and should be foil the automated programs used by cybercriminals, the researchers say.