It’s not the first time Google’s own services have been used to trick the bot challenges – although a new version of reCAPTCHA coming soon should remove the annoyance of having to prove you’re not a robot

If you haven’t enabled 2FA on your iDevice, you’ll be getting a reminder to do so. And while you’re there, do it on your other devices, too.

Cryptography can be fun! Our resident cryptosplainer Paul Ducklin shows how to recover from the Filecode ransomware without paying up.

Amazon’s detailed mea culpa reveals that it wasn’t a hacker or a rogue state plotting to bring down thousands of web services – a reassuring thought that makes the internet giant look, well, human

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