People never change... No matter how much IT professionals try to warn about the risks of weak passwords, it seems we just can't resist using them anyway despite the huge risks involved as more and more of our lives move online. Let's take a look at this year's top 20!

It's probably something not many of us notice these days, but almost all website addresses start "https" now. This indicates a secure connection between your browser and the website. Starting next year, Chrome will effectively force this change, which may have implications for some old internal business systems.

A recent report has uncovered a massive data breach, exposing over 16 billion login credentials from various online platforms, including social media, email services, e-commerce, and banking sites. The chances are at least one of your logins is included. What should you do about it?

In a world where digital scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, Google is stepping up its game with a new AI-powered scam detection tool for its Messages app. This feature is intended to make communications more secure by identifying and flagging potentially harmful messages in real time.

For many years, the primary method of two factor authentication for online accounts has been via text message. You provide your mobile number, then you get a code sent to your phone that you input so that even if someone knows your password, they still can't access your account. Google is the latest company to begin to actively move people away from that approach for security reasons.

We're all used to cookie banners on websites at this point, although anyone that doesn't just ignore them or hit accept regardless may have noticed they can be very devious in trying to get you to accept cookies you didn't mean to. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is now going to be more hardline on what is allowable here.

Google have now added themselves to the growing list of companies that support passkeys - a new way of logging in to your account that requires no password whatsoever. In this article, we look at how you can switch to this method and whether you should.

A spokeperson for Meta's hugely popular WhatsApp messaging service has indicated that the UK is at risk of losing access to the service if it does not shelve changes proposed in the long-gestating Online Safety bill. For those of us that have been watching closely, this is not a surprise...