First, let it be stated for the record: there is no such thing as a simple software that will keep your children from finding offensive or inappropriate content online. Anyone who tells you that a single download will let your children roam freely without your supervision is either delusional or... Read more

The way we pay for goods and services is changing. It almost seems like it is changing on  daily basis. Business no longer accepting cheques as a method of payment, seems like a lifetime ago, but in fact, it was only a few years back.  The advent of e-commerce has... Read more

The recent riots, which rocked Ferguson last Monday night caused immense amounts of damage to numerous different local businesses. Understandably local business owner, Natalie Dubose,  turned to a crowdfunding page in order to raise $20,000 and get her business on track. In only 24 hours time she smashed her goal and... Read more

Police in the US have said they have the man responsible for the Cryptolocker and GameOver Zeus.  A worldwide police operation has been successful in disabling the infrastructure behind the Cryptolocker ransom malware attack.  Not only that, but they have filed a criminal complaint against the Russian citizen that is alleged to have... Read more

Now that being a geek is officially cool, we are surrounded by wannabe geeks with their thick-rimmed glasses, cheesy T-shirts and the odd smart watch but in reality…do they even know their Star Trek from  their Star Wars. So time to man (or woman) up and take the official geekdom... Read more

The German entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who is currently wanted by US for copyright infringement and money laundering in connection with the Megaupload web service, has launched a political party in New Zealand. The Internet Party manifesto said it would fight for net neutrality, faster broadband and online privacy.  The party plans to... Read more

CrowdtiltOpen has just launched, it provides an open source crowdfunding solution that can enable anyone to crowd fund anything on their own website.  You may have heard of something like this before now and that’s because it is the refined version of Crowdhoster, the Y Combinator startup that was created,... Read more

Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged owner of the black-market website Silk Road, has been charged following allegations of drug trafficking computer hacking and money laundering. Prosecutors have also alleged that he is responsible for conspiring six murders, one of which was a former Silk Road employee. Ulbricht’s lawyer said in... Read more

BTC China is the world’s largest bitcoin exchange.  They have now started allowing users to purchase the digital currency with Chinese Yuan again after a ban. This is significant news as BTC China stopped accepting deposits in Renminbi last month, because of a memo warning national financial institutions not to... Read more

A research team specialising in security has revealed that the form of Ransomeware, Cryptolocker, could have managed to infect anywhere between 200,000 to 250,000 devices and could also have collected over £600,000 ($980,000, AU$1,000,000) in the virtual currency Bitcoin. Dell’s SecureWork’s specialist counter-threat unit has scrutinised the infection rates of... Read more

Silk Road, the clandestine online marketplace for illegal items including drugs, is offline following an arrest of the website’s suspected operator by the FBI. A spokesperson said that on Tuesday, Ross William Ulbricht was arrested at a public library in San Francisco “without incident”. Those trying to access The Silk Road... Read more

A cyber security expert has been the target of cyber criminals after suffering a number of attacks over the past year. Brian Krebs, who formerly worked for The Washington Post outing online scammers, now blogs about security on Krebs on Security. Back in March he described how his website suffered... Read more