We should (hopefully) all know by now that giving out a password in almost any circumstances is generally a really bad idea. A rail user has discovered that it seems that no-one at Transport for London got this memo.

A GCHQ survey has revealed a list of the most popular passwords. As usual, it makes for a depressing read for those of us ensuring that systems are secure as can be, only to find out that many still pick passwords that basically leave the front door unlocked! Our blog highlights a selection of the worst offenders.

In this blog, we look at a recently released report from leading security business Kaspersky that details their malware findings from the past year. They found that Microsoft Office is by far the most attacked bit of software. We look at this report in more detail and ask if there's anything you can do about this.

Google have launched a quick quiz to test your abilitiy to identify a dodgy phishing email. Test your ability to weed out emails with nefarious intent from the genuine ones. It's harder than you might think! We also explain some other things you should consider whenever you get an email.

Over the past few months, we have seen an increase in reports from users about a certain type of spam that we haven't covered in our blogs before. Rather than trying to get you to click something so they can install something nasty on your machine, this variant tries to embarrass you into handing over your details. We provide an example of this and also explain what's going on here and what you should do about it.

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.