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With 95% of cybersecurity breaches being caused by human error, alongside zero-days, sophisticated hacks, spear fishing, social engineering and more, Ben Jones explains the state of play in today's world of cybersecurity, and his partnership with famous White House hacker/prankster James Linton.

With 95% of cybersecurity breaches being caused by human error, alongside zero-days, sophisticated hacks, spear fishing, social engineering and more, Ben Jones explains the state of play in today's world of cybersecurity, and his partnership with famous White House hacker/prankster James Linton.

Samsung's February 2022 Unpacked keynote is its most impressive yet, and as I type, I have in streaming for the second time, live on YouTube, and Samsung's presentation and its next-level tech is epic, and throws down the gauntlet to Apple and everyone else for consumer cyber supremacy.

Returning to the office is something many more people have done since lockdowns ended, but which devices are unpatched and unprotected from not being used for months? Cyber security has never been more important, with Aaron Bugal, Global Solutions Engineer at Sophos, telling us all we need to know.

Returning to the office is something many more people have done since lockdowns ended, but which devices are unpatched and unprotected from not being used for months? Cyber security has never been more important, with Aaron Bugal, Global Solutions Engineer at Sophos, telling us all we need to know.

The Document Foundation (TDF) launches LIbreOffice 7.2 Community, a volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop and productivity.

If you use an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV or Apple Watch, today's the day you can download shiny new OS updates that let you unlock an iPhone when wearing a mask with your Apple Watch, re-size iPad and iPhone app windows on an M1 Mac and much, much, MUCH more - plus 50 iOS security updates.

LG has made a public pledge to reassure current and future customers on future OS updates following its announcement to withdraw from the mobile industry, for select 2019 and 2020 premium models.

It’s no April Fool’s joke! The “new no-charge licensing” and the new, no-cost version of Cyber Protection Cloud enables MSPs “to offer cyber protection services on more endpoints, based on Acronis’ best-of-breed backup, award-winning anti-malware, and protection management at little to no cost."

It has been 12 months since Telstra launched its My Telstra app and the company reports spending that year "adding new features and capabilities to put you in control of your Telstra experience."

Apple has likely launched more of its operating systems too for other devices, but an annoying bug in Big Sur with TextEdit not quite fixed yet, while iOS 14.2 brings ProRAW photography to iPhone 12 models, Fitness+ and more!

Veteran security researcher Brian Bartholomew has cast doubt on claims made about attacks by a nation-state backed group on a Chinese VPN provider whose software was used by the Beijing government and its overseas agencies. The allegations were made by Chinese security firm 360 Core Security (Qihoo Security) in a blog post on 6 April.

Despite well-publicised global challenges, Huawei sold 10 million of its P30 series smartphones within 85 days after launch (and 62 days faster than the P20 series) and sold 90 million more devices before May 2019.

Google has shocked the world by banning Huawei from future OS versions and security updates, but existing Huawei handsets will continue getting Google Play app updates, while Huawei promises it will issue security updates instead.

Microsoft will end support and updates for Windows 7 on 14 January next year, the company says, advising users to switch to Windows 10 in order to "keep the good times rolling".

Software updates for telcos can now be performed monthly, with transition from general availability to being live on a telco's network in "as little as two days" compared to six to nine weeks.

When a disastrous ransomware attack is devastating computers across the globe, based on a five-year-old NSA discovered vulnerability, where’s Microsoft?

The latest round of updates for Apple’s devices, as well as iTunes for Windows, iCloud for Windows and Apple Music 2.0 for Android, have been released.

Samsung is reportedly issuing patches to fix "red tint", Wi-Fi and "DQA" issues, while an S8/+ wireless fast charging issue appears to be caused by the "wrong" charger.

Apple has released updates for iOS, macOS and other products to fix a number of security issues.