Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC
Joe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World Service BBC Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy was offered a deal by criminals to help hack the BBC Like many things in the shadowy world of…
Instagram teen accounts still show suicide content, study claims
Imran Rahman-JonesTechnology reporter and Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Getty Images Instagram’s tools designed to protect teenagers from harmful content are failing to stop them from seeing suicide and self-harm posts, a…
Microsoft cuts off some services used by Israeli military unit
Microsoft has cut off some services to a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defence after an investigation found its technology had been used to conduct mass surveillance on people in…
Facebook and Instagram to get £2.99 UK subscription to stop ads
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is launching paid subscriptions for users who do not want to see adverts in the UK. The company said it would start notifying users in…
Nursery hackers threaten to publish more children’s profiles
Joe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images Hackers holding pictures and private data of thousands of nursery children and their families to ransom say they will publish more information…
China launches campaign to keep killjoys off the internet
Getty Images Social media giants have also found themselves penalised in China’s campaign to clean up its internet The Chinese government is taking aim at an emotion that has become…
The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers
Zoe CorbynTechnology Reporter, San Francisco Getty Images E. coli has been used in many discoveries in genetics and molecular biology Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste…
How the hedgehog keeps up to speed
Peter Gillibrand and Tom RichardsonBBC Newsbeat Sega Sonic’s back with a new racing game – but who’s he jostling for pole position with? “Sega does what Nintendon’t”. The slogan, from…
Children’s names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery hack
Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain. A group of cyber criminals says it is using the highly…