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Microsoft users are urged to install operating system and application updates being released tomorrow (August 14th), for both home and business computers. The updates will require a simple download and computer restart to take effect. The...

13 August 2012

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It's that time of year again, and a number of unfortunate would-be holidaymakers have been duped into buying trips to fictitious locations, fake airline tickets and cheap deals that cannot be honoured. National fraud helpline Action Fraud...

11 August 2012

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UK online gamers have been advised to be vigilant about the integrity of their accounts if they play World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 or Diablo 3 - and to use an authenticator app for added security. The warning follows a hack attack on the...

10 August 2012

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(Action Fraud) The Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) is warning the public of a computer scam which attempts to extort money from unsuspecting members of the public by impersonating the e-crime Unit. Police have received 1,100 reports from the...

10 August 2012

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Five new variants of a mobile trojan known as ZitMo have been discovered, targeting BlackBerry and Android mobile devices. A  trojan is a type of software posing as an authentic application, but which actually conceals an item of malware)....

9 August 2012

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Official Olympic ticket agency Ticketmaster has reinstated a Twitter feed helping people buy Olympic tickets for events that have empty seats. @2012TicketAlert was blocked on 2 August after changes to the official Olympic ticket...

7 August 2012

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A journalist has been cut off from his whole digital life by attackers who tricked Apple support into re-setting his iCloud account.The iCloud service co-ordinates everything a customer does on one Apple device to make it available on all their...

7 August 2012