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Given enough time for the new AI system to learn what a helpful review is, fake reviews may sink to the bottom of the reviews ocean.

Google's putting up search result takedown, the US is moving toward criminalisation, and John Oliver calls culprits "malevolent gods".

According to researchers at BAE, a recent Mac malware infestation was carried out using a security hole in a utility called MacKeeper.

The controversial Katie Hopkins had her Twitter account hacked by someone threatening to release a bogus sex tape.

Here's a small and simple XSS detection hole in Google Chrome - a reminder that even determined programmers sometimes overlook the obvious.

A UK watchdog is investigating online reviews, be they "This changed my LIFE!" bogosity or fake negative reviews used as blackmail.

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WikiLeaks appears to be celebrating the third anniversary of Julian Assange's unplanned Ecuadorian embassy stay by releasing another cache of Sony documents, including an alleged bribery investigation.

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin as they dig into the latest security news in our regular "Chet Chat" podcast. This week: LastPass, Facebook, Windows 10 (and not-quite-the-end of XP), Samsung, and the Android ecosystem.

The Drupal Security Team has released a critical security advisory and software updates for the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). Users with websites running either Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 are urged to upgrade immediately.

Even the one star WhatsApp got in the EFF's ranking - for publicly opposing backdoors for government spying - was inherited from Facebook.

Somebody formerly at Google - a somebody who was close to the enormous sucking sound of lost advertising revenues - has decided to fight the adblockers.

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg believes the search engine can attract a growing number of privacy-conscious web users.

The security issue of the week has arrived in iOS and OS X, and it's attracted a funky name already. The researchers called it XARA, but others had different ideas, and dubbed it "CORED." As in "Apple CORED."

The FBI is investigating one of the best baseball teams in the US after it allegedly broke into a database belonging to one of the worst.

York Regional Police in Canada this week announced the arrest of nine men who allegedly targeted women on dating websites, and conned seven victims out of a total of $1.5 million. The romance scammer's outward demonstrations of love must conceal a dark heart ...

Online news site Delfi can be fined for comments left by anonymous readers, ruled the European Court of Human Rights.

After paying out $1.5 million to security researchers last year, Google now offers cash to Android bug hunters.

A presenter at BlackHat London has some bad news for you: the keyboard app built in to your Samsung phone may leave you open to attack. Paul Ducklin explains and offers some advice...