In "It was only a matter of time" news this month, it has transpired that an Amazon Echo recorded a conversation a couple were having and sent it on to a 3rd party. The couple in question were entirely unaware that this had happened. What went wrong?

It has recently been discovered that the installer for CCleaner, a very popular program for automatically tidying and freeing up space on a PC, was hijacked for nearly a month in such a way that everyone that installed it was infected with a trojan.

Reports have come flooding in from companies hit by a new strain of ransomware over the past few days. While the attack was concentrated in the Ukraine, it affected machines all over the world, including British advertising agency WPP.

Researchers at Keeper Security have analysed millions of passwords (mostly from the various data breaches of Yahoo and the like that we blogged about last year) to discover which of these are the most common (and therefore the worst).

On the 21st of October, hackers launched an attack that removed several of the most visited websites in the world from the internet. This included sites like Twitter, Paypal, Netflix, Spotify and many many others.

It has been revealed that the user information associated with more than 500 million Yahoo accounts was stolen in 2014. This data contains the usual details - Email, phone, security questions, date of birth and encrypted passwords.

As of the recently released version 50 of the very popular Google Chrome browser, Microsoft's ancient "Windows XP" operating system is no longer supported.

Oracle (current owners of the previously ubiquitous Java browser plugin) have announced that they will shortly be discontinuing all support for this now, mostly redundant, plugin.

As a new year begins, so does a new threat to your data. A new strain of ransomware (malicious code that demands money to allow you to access your files again) has been spotted in the wild.

We've recently noticed an increase in a particular type of spam referred to as "whaling". This is especially relevant to any high level employees / financial employees in a business, as this trick targets them specifically as the "big fish" (hence "whaling").